Wheelchair-Bound Man, 28, Killed In Upper West Side Blaze
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A 28-year-old man died during a fire in his Upper West Side apartment Monday afternoon.
Relatives were drawn to tears as they stood outside the apartment building on West 105th Street, where firefighters say they entered a unit to find Robert Gutierrez lying unconscious in his bedroom.
He later died at the scene.
Gutierrez's family says a shooting left him paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair, which prevented him from escaping the flames.
Two firefighters were also taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
The cause of the blaze remains under investigation.
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