Brooklyn deliveryman killed after taxi opened door, hit him

SUNSET PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A food deliveryman was on his way to work in Brooklyn on New Year's Day on an electric bike when a taxi opened its door and hit the cyclist, causing him to fall in front of an oncoming car.

Friends and family described 26-year-old Hugo Garcia as a hard-working man who put in 10 hours a day to support his family.
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"He told me right away on the phone, he told me he's already dead," the victim's cousin, Edwardo Garcia, said.

Hugo was heading to work at a bagel and sandwich shop on Smith Street, and he was killed along a strip of Third Avenue.

"This guy, no drink, no nothing," brother Arbro Garcia said. "Just work and house. Work and house and save."
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Hugo was pronounced dead at the scene.

So far, there is no criminality suspected in the case.



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