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Man Sucker-Punched in Brooklyn Dies After Nearly 7 Years in Comma

Domingo Tapia, a father of two, was 38 at the time when he was put in a medically induced coma. 

A father and husband who spent nearly seven years in a coma after he was sucker-punched by a stranger on a New York City street has died -- and his heartbroken family is as devastated by the perceived lack of justice. Domingo Tapia had been hospitalized, unresponsive, since he was randomly socked in the face as he rode his bike in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in June 2017. The father of two was attacked on Fulton Street, near Albany Avenue, as he rode home from his grocery store job and suffered a fractured skull. Click here to read more on nbcnewyork.com. 




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