A man in Chicago was charged with murder and a hate crime after he killed a man in a fight on Wednesday, ABC News reported.

According to residents, retired boxer Michael Tingling, 59, was a popular man in the local area. When he went to pick up his 15-year-old daughter Masharah from the Chicago Math and Science Academy, she told her dad a man approached her.

Tingling then went up to the man -- identified as 59-year-old Joseph Firek -- and told him to stay away from his daughter. Instead, Firek punched Tingling in the chest.

Firek also made several racial epithets to Tingling, resulting in his hate crime charge, according to a police report. Tingling and his daughter ran to a local business where he eventually collapsed.

Tingling was transported to Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston and pronounced dead at 2:46 p.m. The autopsy stated he died from hypertensive cardiovascular disease, with stress from the punch listed as a secondary factor. 

"Her dad is not there to see her graduate," said Tingling's ex-wife Yolanda Simmons. "She wants her dad back. I wish I could give him back to her." 

Firek is scheduled to appear in bond court on Friday.