A 99-year-old Manhattan landlord died simply weeks after being violently robbed of $20,000 at gunpoint throughout a broad-daylight heist, his heartbroken grandson revealed Wednesday whereas slamming crime within the metropolis.
Longtime landlord Jose Antonio Tur died on Wednesday in hospice care after struggling a stroke, his grandson, Jose Miguel Tur, informed The Put up.
The eldest Tur was robbed of $20,000 in lease funds at his constructing at West 187th Avenue close to Audubon Avenue in Washington Heights at 10 a.m. on Sept. 22. The masked robber was probably holding observe of the senior’s each motion and threatened him at gunpoint, in accordance with cops.
Antonio, a former ship service provider from Cuba, labored as a porter for eight years earlier than shopping for the Washington Heights constructing in 1997, his grandson mentioned.
Instantly after studying his grandfather was robbed, Miguel grew outraged on the lawlessness of the Large Apple.
“From the start, it’s like anger and disgust and like how lawless New York has turn into, and the way justice isn’t served, like there’s no penalties on the individuals who commit these sorts of crimes, and the way there’s no respect, proper?” Miguel mentioned. “There’s no restrict as to what you see, particularly with this that hit arduous at house.”
“The entire bail reform legal guidelines, clearly, the coverage isn’t working,” he fumed.
Antonio had fled Cuba below Fidel Castro’s communist regime, and thought “the identical factor that was occurring there [in Cuba] was going to occur right here,” his grandson recalled.
He slammed the Large Apple as “the worst metropolis to be a landlord in.”
Antonio had been the goal of a earlier assault at one other constructing he owns throughout the road shortly after bail reforms went into impact in 2020.
Throughout that assault, a perp with a “lengthy rap sheet” had tried to burglarize the constructing, he recalled.
In September’s incident, the suspect referred to as the aged constructing proprietor to ship a package deal, pushing his well past the gate after asking Antonio to fulfill him on the aspect of the constructing, in accordance with police.
The 99-year-old bought right into a battle with the intruder and had his hand crushed between the door and the metallic body, inflicting him to endure damaged fingers.
The suspect then made his approach into the basement of the five-floor, 30-unit constructing, forcing Antonio to steer him to the workplace at gunpoint to seize the lease funds saved in a cupboard.
The intruder fled the scene with a hefty wad of money and is now in custody, in accordance with Miguel.
Cops haven’t but confirmed the arrest.
Miguel has since written to a number of native elected officers, blasting bail reform insurance policies and demanding that penalties be applied to curb crime.
He recalled his grandfather pouring each final second of his life into working and fostering his enterprise.
“Simply the pure notion of resilience and like all the time discovering a approach, all the time searching for an answer to the issue irrespective of how it’s, and by no means being afraid or having any lack of hope, and all the time pushing ahead,” Miguel mentioned of his grandfather’s finest qualities.
“He didn’t take into consideration the cash, simply thought of it as a solution to progress. Til the tip, he nonetheless labored. He put the work first, cash second.”
