Gregory Turnipseed, the city transportation worker who was brutally beaten over a parking dispute last month, came from a big, well-known family in Baltimore and was a son of late community leaders in the Oliver neighborhood.

Former Mayor Bernard “Jack” Young remembered his boyhood friend from East Baltimore, who died Wednesday from injuries suffered in the Oct. 17 attack, as kindly and civic-minded.

“Just a fantastic guy. I don’t know who would want to hurt him,” Young said. “He was always out to help people, because that’s how he grew up under his mom and dad.”

City leaders announced the death of the 14-year veteran of the Department of Transportation on Friday. His condition worsened in the days after the attack, and he was hospitalized Oct. 20, police said.

“He served Baltimore with dignity and integrity, and we will forever be grateful for his dedication to our city,” the mayor, state’s attorney, police commissioner and transportation director said in a joint statement. “We will continue wrapping our arms around his family and loved ones, holding them close in our hearts and prayers.”

The City Union of Baltimore represents transportation workers, and Turnipseed was a union member. The union issued a statement Friday asking city leaders to investigate what happened.

“For too long, we at the City Union of Baltimore have said no city employee should go to work with the fear of losing their life; simply put, that should never, ever happen. When is enough enough? The tragic passing of Gregory Turnipseed will only strengthen our resolve for change,” union leaders said in a statement.

A 49-year-old woman from Northeast Baltimore has been arrested and charged with fatally beating him during an argument over a parking spot downtown.

The traffic division employee told police he was walking in the 500 block of St. Paul Street when he noticed a car waiting for another vehicle to pull out of a parking spot. When he approached the parked car, the front passenger, a young woman around the age of 15, “became irate, exited the vehicle, and began punching him in the face several times,” he told police according to charging documents.

The 71-year-old tried to restrain the girl, while the driver, whom he believed to be her mother, got out of the car and jumped on his back, causing him to fall, police wrote in the charging documents.

“The driver then kicked him in the head multiple times, breaking his glasses, and resulting in abrasions and swelling to his head/face area,” police wrote.

The woman and girl left in the car, and Turnipseed went to the hospital. His daughter later told police that he had suffered bleeding in his brain and he underwent surgery at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.

Police found the car was registered to Kiannah Bonaparte of New Northwood. Turnipseed identified her in a photo array about three weeks after his attack, police wrote. He continued to suffer brain damage and other injuries.

Bonaparte was arrested Nov. 15, and the judge ordered her held without bond. She was initially charged with first- and second-degree assault, but that was before Turnipseed‘s death. Police said their investigation continues.

Online court records did not list her attorney, and she’s scheduled for a preliminary hearing Dec. 11 in Baltimore District Court.

The charging documents do not identify the teenage girl and make no mention of criminal charges against her. Juvenile cases are generally confidential under Maryland law.

This story may be updated.