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Thomas Tracy

Brooklyn man who died from shove was sucker-punched and robbed, new video shows

NEW YORK — A 61-year-old man who died after he was shoved to the ground outside his Brooklyn home was sucker-punched by two men who then robbed him as he lay dying, video released by police Thursday shows.

Victor Vega was found unconscious suffering from a massive head injury in front of his Bedford-Stuyvesant home on Lexington Ave. near Nostrand Avenue about 8:25 p.m. May 25, police said. He died at Kings County Hospital Monday.

Surveillance video released by the New York Police Department shows he fell backward after a man he was walking down the sidewalk with punched him without warning in the head.

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