Mardoquo Sincal Jochola was an immigrant from Guatemala.
Philadelphia police, investigating the murder of an immigrant landscape worker said that ‘knockout game’ may be the cause of death of the man.
Mardoquo Sincal Jochola, 30, who immigrated from Guatemala died after an unidentified man punched him in the head at a parking lot on the 700 block of Adams Avenue in the Lawncrest section of northeast Philadelphia on Friday evening.
The police have collected the CCTV footage from the locality to identify the assaulters.
In the video, three men are seen standing near Jochola and suddenly a man in white shirt thrown a punch on him without any provocation.
“He all of a sudden, without any notice, throws a punch and it’s clear the victim never saw it coming,” Lt. Phillip Riehl of the Philadelphia Police, told CBS Local.
Jochola can be seen walking a few steps and then stumbling to the ground. The assaulters fled the scene immediately.
“Only he’s my brother. Now, he really leave me forever. I never see him never ever,” the victim’s brother told Eyewitness News. He was afraid to show his face on the camera fearing that he would also be attacked.
“I want to go back to my country. I don’t want to live here no more,” he added.
The police suspect that the sucker punch to the head of Jochola killed him and are investigating whether the punch was part of a knockout game in which one person (with others acting as accomplices or lookouts) attempt to “knock out”, with a single sucker punch, an unsuspecting victim.
“It certainly is a possibility, but regardless of what the motivation is, it’s still a pretty scary crime that some person could be walking down the street and be punched for no reason and killed,” said Lt. Riehl.
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