PALMETTO (WSNN) – Family and friends of Juan Sanchez say their final goodbyes, Monday night. The 31-year-old was shot standing outside his house in Palmetto last month.
During his funeral mass held in the same place where he lost his life, family and friends said goodbye to Juan Sanchez. Dozens of people joined in prayer to accompany his Mexican family during their pain.
“His personality was like no other,” Sanchez’s niece, Marjorie Alvarado said
Alvarado says he also had a charitable heart. And she doesn’t understand how the life of such a good person could be taken away so violently. She questions, “Why him?”
‘Boo Boo,’ as he was known to his loved ones, was shot in front of his own home in Palmetto, January 20th just before 4 a.m. According to the police, no arrests have been made.
Neither the cold nor the impending rain kept the family from walking the coffin around the entire neighborhood to the sound of a Mariachi band.
Friends took turns carrying Sanchez’s body before he was laid to rest at the Mansion Memorial Cemetery in Palmetto.
“He liked the color purple, he was a dancer, a good father, a good friend, he was loved and will be loved and remembered,” Sanchez’s ex-mother-in-law, Elizabeth Padillo said.
Palmetto Police say the investigation is active and ongoing. His family members are demanding justice.
“It’s very unfortunate that a mother is suffering for people who do know her heart and don’t understand the pain they are leaving for his son, for my granddaughter,” Padillo said. “He was the best father in the world.”
You can find the Spanish version of this story here.
