The 99-year-old landlord who was hit by a stroke after he was robbed at gunpoint at the Washington Heights apartment building he managed for decades died Wednesday morning, the Daily News learned.
Jose Antonio Tur, 99, was in hospice care after battling a stroke that left him in the ICU with the left side of his face paralyzed and struggling to speak.
“In the beginning, when he was in ICU from the 24th to 1st, his speech was slurred, you couldn’t understand him,” his grandson Jose Tur, 31, who worked with him, said. “He can process based on you looking him in the eye and him moving his hands, but you couldn’t comprehend what he was saying. After he got out of normal care and into hospice, he was really gone from there for the most part.”
On Sept. 22, the nonagenarian received two phon