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.”

Jose Antonio Tur, a 99-year-old landlord, suffered a stroke the day after being the victim of a brazen gunpoint push-in robbery at a Washington Heights apartment building on W. 187th St. near Audubon Ave. in Manhattan. (Google)

On Sept. 22, the nonagenarian received two phone calls from someone asking him in Spanish to meet at a side entrance of the victim’s 30-unit building on W. 187th St. near Audubon Ave. at around 10 a.m. to receive a package for one of the tenants, police said.

When the elder Tur went to the entrance, he was met by a gunman in a ski mask and hoodie. The robber pushed his way into the building and a struggle ensued, with the gunman pressing a firearm against Tur’s throat, police said.

Police released surveillance images of a hooded person who they said pulled a gun and robbed a 99-year-old man. (NYPD)

Surveillance video reviewed by The News shows Tur walking ahead of the armed suspect, who is holding a gun to the building owner’s back. The crook forced Tur into his basement office, where he stole $20,000 in cash before running off, police said.

Medics took Tur to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia. He had two broken fingers and a cut to his hand requiring stitches that he suffered while struggling with the gunman.

A suspect was taken into custody, the grandson said. Though police have not confirmed anyone was arrested in the incident.

Front page of the New York Daily News for Sept. 26, 2025, for story on how landlord Jose Antonio Tur was trying to recover from a stroke he suffered Tuesday, a day after he was robbed by suspect caught on video (inset) outside his Washington Heights building.

The grandson called the gunman a “coward,” suspecting it may have been someone who knew the elderly landlord or previously lived in the building.

“It’s just disgust with how things have gotten where there is no respect,” he said. “There is no consequence for wrongdoing. I don’t feel much relief when they caught the guy. Now I have to worry and see where the case goes and how the judge is going to treat it.”

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