JERSEY CITY (WABC) – A family is in mourning and speaking out about their brother, who died days after trying to break up a fight in a bar in New Jersey.
Benie Kaulesar was just trying to keep the peace when a fight broke out last week in a bar in Jersey City. He was punched from behind, fell and hit his head, and died.
The family wants to know the facts behind the altercation, but in the meantime they are celebrating what he gave in life, and death.
“Benie would give his life for his friends, he would take his shirt off his back and give it to them,” said his brother Johnny. There were 16 brothers and sisters in all; Benie was the youngest of the boys.
After he was declared brain-dead, they made the tough decision to end life support.
“That’s my last brother, my baby brother, I get very emotional,” said Benie’s brother Deodat.
Police say on August 16, two men got into an argument outside Palm Court Restaurant and Sports Bar at Kearney and West Side Avenues. Kaulesar, who was 57, tried to get them to stop, but he was punched and hit the ground. He never recovered.
“This incident really was about a friend, and he was trying to help and this was the consequences of it,” said one of Benie’s brothers, Ishri Bach Kaulesar.
Police have charged 38-year old Cornelius Ramadhar with aggravated assault, which may be upgraded since Benie Kaulesar has died. Investigators are reviewing security video from outside the bar.
Kaulesar leaves his siblings and his son. As they make funeral arrangements, they find smiles in the memory of the boy who came to America from Guyana at 18 years old, the second brother to come, with more family right behind him.
“He’ll do anything for people. He’ll forget himself and do things for people. That’s the person he was,” said Deodat.
His family says he was an organ donor and because of that, 4 patients have a chance at better lives.
@Victor!!!JESUS IS PART OF GOD BCUZ GOD HAS GIVEN JESUS ARE A WHOLE NOW AFTER HE ROSE AND WENT TO HEAVEN,HE IS InCHARGE of you and me VICTOR,YES HE IS MAN AND YES HE WAS BORN.OF FLESH,ROSE IN SPIRIT,JESUS WAS NEVER a Prophet,MOHAMED was a Prophet,
And YES HE KNEW HIS NAMES IS JESUS WHEN HE WAS ON EARTH! His NAME IS JESUS BOY,WATCHOUT WAT U R SAYING!
Benie was a good man and a good friend. R I P
lets be real… how can jesus be god.. he was a mannnnn.. a nobel n mighty prophet..comon ppl… further, he never heard the name jesus… dat wasnt even his call name…
He is a hero
RIP Benie its always so sad at the lost of our fellow Guyanese comining to Anerica to make a better life and loose his or her life in the process. AMERICA CAN BE A DANGEROUS PLACE. Live carefully fellow Guyanese . Do not take anything for granted in this country.
Good Morning!
My CONDOLENCES GOES OUT TO RHE FMLY IF BENIE ABOUT THE JERSEY FIGHT BREAKUP,MAY HE R.I.P AND HOPE ALL WAS WELL WITH JESUS! Be Blessed!