Brooklyn Man in Car Buried Alive by Snow Plow

Photos via Theresa Morales/GoFundMe

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — The record-setting blizzard that tore through New York City last Saturday took one more life in Brooklyn in the days that followed, when 44-year-old Sunset Park husband and father Angel Ginel was apparently buried inside his parked Lexus by a passing snow plow.

Ginel’s wife of 14 years, Ramonita, told the New York Daily News that Ginel had ventured out into the neighborhood Sunday to earn some money shoveling snow.

“He gave me a kiss goodbye and said he’ll see me later,” she said Monday. “Then I kept calling his phone. I kept calling his phone because he didn’t come home last night, I kept calling leaving him messages.”

When that didn’t work, Ramonita reportedly walked around the corner from their family home to 525 47th Street — where her husband had parked his new Lexus before the storm.

That’s when she noticed her husband in the driver’s seat.

Ramonita said she also noticed that the path her husband had cleared to his car was now covered in snow.

“I’m calling him ‘Angel! Angel!’ and I didn’t see him moving or breathing,” she said. ”Then I called my son and my nephew to come. He helped me shovel out the snow and my son and my nephew shovel out and when we opened the door he was dead.”

The NYPD said officers responded to a 911 call at that location around 4:40 p.m. Monday.

“Upon arrival, police observed a 44-year-old male unconscious and unresponsive seated in the driver’s seat of a 2003 Lexus,” the NYPD said in a statement sent to Patch. ”EMS arrived and pronounced the male deceased.”

Although Ginel’s official cause of death has yet to be determined, a police source told Patch that when first responders arrived, Ginel’s ”face was red, which is indicative of carbon-monoxide poisoning.”

“Additionally,” the source said, ”the tailpipe of the vehicle was covered in snow.”

A GoFundMe has since been set up to raise money for Ginel’s family and cover his funeral arrangements.

Theresa Morales, creator of the GoFundMe page, wrote:

“Wow I still can’t believe it such a great man taken from us soo soon it breaks my heart writing this everybody that knew Angel knows he was a great father, brother,husband and son he loved his family dearly an unfortunate accident took him too soon from us. You will be truely missed we love you .”

Did you know Angel Ginel, or see what happened to him Monday? Reach out: simone.wilson@patch.com.