An immigrant delivery man bashed unconscious during a botched four-on-one Manhattan mugging died of his injuries months later, cops said Sunday.
Santiago Ajsac Sirin never recovered after he was attacked by a group of crooks on Second Ave. near E. 29th St. in Kips Bay about 5:40 p.m. July 13.
Medics rushed Asjac Sirin, 36, to Bellevue Hospital, where he remained until his death Oct. 22. His death, previously unreported, has been deemed a homicide, the NYPD announced Sunday.
“He was a very hardworking young man who worked as a delivery boy in Manhattan,” a friend wrote in Spanish on a GoFund to raise money for the victim’s widow in Guatemala. “Unfortunately, he was robbed. They tried to take his bicycle and money.”
“It’s heartbreaking for me, but today it’s me, tomorrow it could be you,” the friend added.
Surveillance video from the Target on that corner captured the cruel attack, according to prosecutors. Asjac Sirin was sitting on a metal tree guard outside the store when Lavel Boddie, Fritzgens Delia and two other men still on the loose swarmed him, according to a criminal complaint.
Boddie allegedly punched Asjac Sirin in the face, knocking him back and causing his head to strike the metal tree guard, prosecutors say. Delia then punched him in the head about seven times while Boddie rummaged through the victim’s backpack, prosecutors charge.
Police found Asjac Sirin unconscious, his face swollen and bleeding. Medics took him to Bellevue Hospital, where doctors performed emergency brain surgery. Even after the procedure, he remained in a medically induced coma and was “neurologically unresponsive,” according to the complaint.
Asjac Sirin’s cause of death was blunt force trauma to the back of the head, police sources said.
Four days after the attack, NYPD cops arrested Delia, 32, who lives in a shelter a block from the crime scene. The robbers ran toward that shelter after beating Asjac Sirin and someone recognized Delia from a wanted poster, prosecutors said.
On Aug. 4, a little over two weeks after the attack, cops nabbed Lavel Boddie, also 32. Boddie lives in a shelter in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, according to cops.
Both suspects are charged with assault and attempted robbery and are being held on bail on Rikers Island. Their lawyers could not be reached for comment Sunday.
It’s not yet clear if prosecutors will seek upgraded charges in the wake of Asjac Sirin’s death. A spokesman for the Manhattan D.A.’s office said the investigation is ongoing.
