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For simple and safe banking anytime, anywhere. just drop by or visit regions.com/open to open your accounts and get into the rhythm of saving. regions it's time to expect more. he lived in the shadows and died on the street without anyone helping him. i can't stop thinking about this man, a good samaritan, stabbed on the sidewalk and died. people come and go and some stop and stare, one took a picture. all did nothing. by the time help arrives, it's too late, the man is dead. we heard a lot about bystander behavior and the indifference to those in desperate need. what about the victim? who w...

He saw a woman being attacked by a man and as he tried to stop him, all of that was picked up on the camera. as heroic as tale-yax's actions were, he remained invisible. relay here in a crumbled here for more than an hour where more than two dozen people passed on by. invisible, even finding someone who knew him was a challenge. we did eventually find his cousin. >> at least one of the people that just walkway from him, they should have stopped by and see what happened to him. that probably could have save his life, too, but nobody did it. >> reporter: for days people have speculated why no on...

People simply passed on by. invisible, even finding someone who knew him was a challenge. we did eventually find his cousin. >> at least one of the people that just walkway from him, they should have stopped by and see what happened to him. that probably could have save his life, too, but nobody did it. >> reporter: for days people have speculated why no one stopped. maybe it was the so-called bystander behavior or maybe our society is so saturated with violent images on tv and video game, when people see the real trauma, it barely registers. none of that helps him. i couldn't stop thinking ab...

People come and go and some stop and stare, one took a picture. all did nothing. by the time help arrives, it's too late, the man is dead. we heard a lot about bystander behavior and the indifference to those in desperate need. what about the victim? who was he? we think it's important to know. what matters isn't just how he died, also how he lived. here's tonight's "crime and punishment" report. >> reporter: invisible, probably how this man would have described himself, cloaked ingrainny video. the last reported images of him. >> by the time tale-yax died, he was here six years, down-and-out ...

Another turns tale-yax over, presumably sees his wounds, but like the others, walks away. for more than an hour, dozens of pedestrians and bystanders walk past this hero who saved a life, apparently without ever calling 911. finally, firefighters respond to the scene, but it is too late. hugo alfredo tale-yax is dead. it's a shocking story, i'll tell you, but we've seen it before. it's called bystander behavior, in which people do nothing to save someone else's life. but it could be something else as well. and that's the response mechanisms in our brains. that could be changing. we're digging ...