NEW YORK—Some 250 family members and neighbors of John Collado marched to the 34th police precinct here September 17 from the apartment complex where he was killed by a plainclothes cop.

Collado was shot September 6 in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan after he attempted to intervene in what witnesses say appeared to be an assault on his neighbor. He died at Harlem Hospital the next day.

“My father was a good man who had great respect for the law,” 21-year-old John Collado Jr. told the Militant. “I know that if the officer identified himself my father would not have intervened. I want the cop to get justice, get arrested and get 25 years to life like anyone else who commits murder.”

Collado’s wife, Amarilis Collado, told El Diario that family members were prevented from accompanying him in the ambulance or seeing him during his last moments at Harlem Hospital. “They left him to die alone.”

Banayz Tavares, Collado’s niece and a nurse in training, was arrested when she tried to help Collado, reported El Diario and the Daily News.

—DEBORAH LIATOS