Mourners were in for a strange one at the wake of 23 year old Puerto Rican boxer Christopher Rivera Amaro who was shot dead in the city of Santurce on Sunday Jan. 26th. Christopher Rivera Amaro who is survied by a wife and three kids was propped up in a makeshift boxing ring for his wake keep which was fixed for Friday Jan. 31st.
Mourners who came to his wake at San Juan found him posed in the ring, a yellow hood on his head, sunglasses glasses over his eyes and blue boxing gloves on his hands.
His family said they want people to remember him as a boxer and not a victim of gun violence.
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