{"id":2334,"date":"2025-10-14T20:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/2334\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T20:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:57:08","slug":"cops-nab-ruffian-linked-to-robbery-of-99-year-old-nyc-landlord-who-had-stroke-and-died-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/2334\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops nab ruffian linked to robbery of 99-year-old NYC landlord who had stroke and died: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authorities busted a fugitive thief accused of robbing a 99-year-old Manhattan landlord<\/a> who had a stroke and died in the aftermath of the $20,000 heist, law enforcement sources said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old suspect \u2013 who investigators believe robbed longtime Washington Heights building owner Jose Antonio Tur of rent payments on Sept. 22 \u2013 was taken into custody in Philadelphia a week later on Sept. 29, according to the sources.<\/p>\n

But he was still awaiting extradition to the Big Apple on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A 39-year-old man was picked up in Philadelphia in connection to the violent gunpoint robbery of a 99-year-old Washington Heights landlord, sources said. NYPD<\/p>\n

It was not immediately known why the alleged robber \u2013 whose name was not released \u2013 was in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

The cunning, ski mask-wearing criminal called the elderly building owner around 10 a.m. and claimed he had a package that needed to be delivered to an apartment within the residence on West 187th Street near Audubon Avenue in Washington Heights, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny previously said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The caller requested that the senior meet him on the side of the building \u2013 a red flag because someone would only know there was a side entrance if he or she was familiar with that building, Kenny said.<\/p>\n

When the victim went to open the gate, the intruder grabbed it and pushed his way past, the chief said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The senior, Jose Antonio Tur, suffered a stroke in the aftermath of the robbery and died last week, his grandson said. Courtesy of Jose Miguel Tur<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 99-year-old starts to fight with the perpetrator,\u201d Kenny said. \u201cDuring this fight over the door, his hand gets crushed between the door and the metal frame, hurts his hand, and he ends up having to get stitches.\u201d<\/p>\n

The suspect then made his way into the basement of the five-floor, 30-unit building, where he allegedly pressed a gun into the victim\u2019s back and demanded access to the office, the police official said.<\/p>\n

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He then forced his way into the office, where he snatched up at least $20,000 in rent that was stored in a cabinet, he added.<\/p>\n

The money also included payments from the tenants of two buildings across the street, which the senior also owned, Kenny said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Originally from Cuba, Tur worked as a porter for eight years before buying the Washington Heights building in 1979. Courtesy of Jose Miguel Tur<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is in charge of collecting the rent, and someone knew that he kept the rent in that cabinet,\u201d the chief said. \u201cIt was plain obvious that the perpetrator knew his way around that building. He knew that the male had the money.\u201d<\/p>\n

The nonagenarian \u2013 who fled Cuba decades ago under Fidel Castro\u2019s communist regime \u2013 was taken to New York-Presbyterian\/Columbia University Irving Medical Center with two broken fingers and a cut on his hand, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tur then suffered a stroke \u201cthat caused him to be paralyzed on the left side and limited his ability to swallow and eat also,\u201d his grandson Jose Miguel Tur, 31, told The Post by phone last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The senior\u2019s grandson, Jose Miguel Tur, 31, expressed \u201canger and disgust and like how lawless New York has become.\u201d Courtesy of Jose Miguel Tur<\/p>\n

He was then moved to the intensive care unit, and ultimately hospice care, where he died Wednesday, his grandson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the beginning, it\u2019s like anger and disgust and like how lawless New York has become, and how justice isn\u2019t served, like there\u2019s no consequences on the people who commit these kinds of crimes, and how there\u2019s no respect, right?\u201d Jose Tur said. \u201cThere\u2019s no limit as to what you see, especially with this that hit hard at home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole bail reform laws, clearly, the policy isn\u2019t working,\u201d he fumed.<\/p>\n

The wanted man was still in Philadelphia and had not yet been extradited by Tuesday, sources said. NYPD<\/p>\n

The elder Tur, a former ship merchant from Cuba, worked as a porter for eight years before buying the Washington Heights building in 1979, his grandson said.<\/p>\n

The senior had been the target of a previous assault at another building he owns across the street shortly after bail reforms went into effect in 2020.<\/a><\/p>\n

During that assault, a perp with a \u201clong rap sheet\u201d had attempted to burglarize the building, the younger man recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201c[My grandfather] wanted to see a change,\u201d he said. \u201cHe was very saddened at the fact that, you know, when he bought these buildings, the city was in shambles. Then it got much, much better later, and then he just saw another decline.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo [he] was like, imagine, \u2018Oh, my God, I\u2019m at the end of my road, and it\u2019s kind of like how it was when I first got here, which is not good,\u2019\u201d Miguel Tur added.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities busted a fugitive thief accused of robbing a 99-year-old Manhattan landlord who had a stroke and died…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[303,2954,57,9,56,63,65,64,339,2955,2956,2957,58,2958],"class_list":{"0":"post-2334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-landlords","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-philadelphia","17":"tag-robberies","18":"tag-senior-citizens","19":"tag-upper-manhattan","20":"tag-us-news","21":"tag-washington-heights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}