New York, New York - A Queens man who was rushing home to aid his sick wife was fatally struck by a subway train following a fight with another passenger.

Heriberto Quintana was on his way home to take his wife, Hilda Rojas, to her scheduled dialysis treatment.

"He left the house for work every day at 4:40 AM and would get home at 5 PM," Rojas told the New York Post. "And that day, just like every day, I was waiting for him to get home. That day he never came home."

She eventually learned that her 48-year-old husband was struck by a train as he was making his way to her.

As he was waiting for his train at the Roosevelt Avenue-Jackson Heights station, he accidentally bumped into 50-year-old Carlos Garcia and knocked his cell phone onto the tracks.

After Quintana refused to retrieve the phone, Garcia got angry, and a fight broke out on the platform.

Quintana ended up falling from the platform onto the tracks, where he was hit by an oncoming F train. He was rushed to Elmhurst hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled that Quintana died of blunt force injuries, and his case was deemed a homicide.

Garcia was in court on Tuesday for his arraignment for manslaughter charges. Prosecutors argued that Garcia punched the victim in the face, resulting in his fall on the tracks. Garcia's attorneys argued that he attempted to help pull Quintana off the tracks and that his charges should be assault in the third degree instead of manslaughter.

Hilda Rojas told the NY Post that she wants justice for her husband and father of three.

"There’s no situation where you take a life because of a phone," she insisted. "A phone doesn’t equal a life."

Heriberto Quintana's family has set up a GoFundMe page in an effort to raise enough money to have him transported and then buried in his native country of Mexico.