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Beloved New York City restaurant food runner and bus boy dies after being beaten by five men who robbed him of his bike in The Bronx, leaving him brain dead and on life support for 13 days.

A hardworking immigrant who worked as a food runner and bus boy at a popular Manhattan restaurant has died after he was robbed and viciously beaten by five men in the South Bronx on a bridge that is notorious for random attacks.

Tiburcio Castillo, 37, affectionately known as ‘Tibo,’ died on Tuesday after he was beaten into a coma and spent 13 days on life support after the June 28 attack, the Upper East Site reports.

The married father of four worked at the French Bistro Quatorze located at 1578 First Avenue at 82nd Street in New York City.

Castillo was riding his e-bike to his home in the South Bronx after finishing his work shift. He was riding along the Willis Avenue Bridge when he was ambushed by five men who beat and robbed him.

The five men who allegedly brutally murdered Castillo have not been caught. An NYPD spokesperson told DailyMail.com on Friday that ‘a complaint was never filed with the name Tiburcio Castillo.’

The Willis Avenue Bridge that extends from First Avenue and East 124th Street in Manhattan to Willis Avenue and East 134th Street in The Bronx, has been known to be ‘one of the most dangerous in the city’ and a place where ‘assaults and robberies are frequently committed,’ according to Sergio Solano, one of the leaders of deliverista advocacy group, El Diario de lose Deliveryboys en la Gran Manzana (The Diary of the Delivery Boys in the Big Apple) reported.

When Castillo did not return home or show up at his work shift at the restaurant the next day, his family grew frantic.

He was later found at Lincoln Hospital in The Bronx fighting for his life.

On Tuesday, Castillo succumbed to his injuries.