 Emdee Shaika, who was working at the petrol station during the fight, said he called police after one of the men grabbed a wooden board from a construction site and used it to attack Mr Vasquez. He told CBS2: "Two groups were there, around 10, 12 people. I saw one guy hit him maybe two times. Also then over also there one time maybe." The victim, who lived round the corner from the petrol station, was rushed to a nearby hospital but tragically died. Mr Vasquez, who had come to America for a better life from Guatemala, was working at a furniture store along with his brother in order to provide money for his young family, one-year-old son Sammy and wife Sofia. Tributes have been paid to the 23-year-old with a makeshift memorial of flowers and a candle put next to a construction site near the BP petrol station. Police are searching for suspects after the man was killed by a wooden board ( CBS) According to his family, he had lived in){kind=link}
Esvin Vasquez, 23, from New York, was on his way home from a late-night shift and stopped off to get some petrol at a BP station when he became caught up in a fight on Sunday morning
A man was killed during an unprovoked attack after being struck over the head with a wooden board at a petrol station.
Esvin Vasquez, 23, from Queens, New York, was on his way home from a late-night shift and had stopped off to get some petrol at the BP station when he became caught up in a fight on Sunday morning.
He had driven into the petrol station when two large groups of strangers, thought to be around 10-12 people, were in a heated argument when a fight started to break out.
It was around 2am when Mr Vasquez was killed after a wooden board was smashed over the victim’s head during the argument.