{"id":20962,"date":"2015-10-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/dead-murder-victim-attends-his-own-wake\/"},"modified":"2015-10-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T00:00:00","slug":"dead-murder-victim-attends-his-own-wake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/dead-murder-victim-attends-his-own-wake\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder victim attends his own wake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Jomar Aguayo Collazo appears to be sitting and playing dominoes in this picture.<\/h3>\n<p>But the 23-year-old was shot and killed last week in a bar in R\u00edo Piedras in Puerto Rico\u2026. And this is his wake.<\/p>\n<p>To send him off, his mother took the very unusual step of dressing him up and propping him seated upright at his favourite table at the bar she owns and runs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"641\" width=\"606\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dead_guy_wake_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As he was seated at the table, friends gathered around him, toasting him with their drinks, as dance music played from a nearby jukebox.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s believed the man, who police said had a gun on his body when he was found, was shot in a drug-related incident.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"610\" width=\"626\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/dead_guy_wake_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While the rather creepy funeral practice might seem bizarre, it\u2019s not in fact the first time that such a send-off has occurred in Puerto Rico \u2013 in fact, they\u2019re becoming quite common.<\/p>\n<p>The local Marin funeral directors are becoming pros at hosting such events, according to the Mirror. They have also recently embalmed a boxer to make him it appear like he was gearing up for his last fight, as well as a corpse who was propped up riding a motorbike.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/snapchat-reveals-woman-cheating\">ONE DEAD GIVEAWAY IN THIS PHOTO CAUGHT OUT A CHEATING WIFE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/lonely-95-year-old-man-rings-radio-station-now-he-s-a-star\">LONELY 95-YEAR-OLD MAN RANG A RADIO STATION, NOW HE&#8217;S A STAR<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jomar Aguayo Collazo appears to be sitting and playing dominoes in this picture. But the 23-year-old was shot and killed last week in a bar in R\u00edo Piedras in Puerto Rico\u2026. And this is his wake. To send him off, his mother took the very unusual step of dressing him up and propping him seated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":20965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-20962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Murder victim attends his own wake - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/dead-murder-victim-attends-his-own-wake\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Murder victim attends his own wake\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jomar Aguayo Collazo appears to be sitting and playing dominoes in this picture. 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