In April, 2010, a homeless man helped a young woman fend off an attacker in Queens, New York.For his trouble, he was stabbed and fell to the sidewalk where he laid in a pool of his own blood.When emergency aid arrived over an hour later, Hugo Tale-Yax was already dead with surveillance video revealed that 25 people had walked past him while he lay dying on the street.A contributing factor for this lack of bystander intervention was that these people

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Research has shown that people are less likely to intervene in emergency situations when the victim is dissimilar to them or perceived as belonging to a different social group, such as the homeless. This lack of connection to the victim can decrease feelings of empathy, which may explain why the bystanders did not offer help to Tale-Yax.

In April, 2010, a Homeless Man Helped a Young Woman