GoFundMe Started For Family Of Killed Bagel Delivery Man

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — The community has raised nearly $3,000 to help the family of a bagel delivery worker who was killed New Year's Day on his way to work.

26-year-old Hugo Garcia was riding his electric bicycle around 6 a.m. down 3rd Avenue in Sunset Park when he hit the open car door of a parked taxi cab. Garcia fell off of the bike and into the northbound lane of 3rd Avenue, where he was hit by a 53-year-old driver in a Nissan, police said.

Police arrived to find Garcia lying in the road, unconscious and unresponsive with trauma to his head and body. He was taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where he died.

Garcia was on his way to work as a bagel delivery man at Bagels By the Park in Carroll Gardens. The accident occurred just a block from his home in Sunset Park, records show.

The community has since created a GoFundMe to help Garcia's family. The page has raised more than $2,800 of its $2,000 goal, including a donation from city Councilman Brad Lander.

"Our neighbor Hugo Garcia, a hard-working delivery worker for Bagels by the Park in Carroll Gardens, was killed tragically when he was doored by a driver & knocked into the path of an oncoming car while riding to work," Lander tweeted with a link to the GoFundMe. "Please give to support his family."

Photo from GoFundMe.