Teen 'murder victim' phones mum at own funeral
Nobody saw this twist coming.
A grieving mum got the shock of her life when her teenage son video called her at his own funeral. The 17-year-old boy phoned his mother to tell her he was alive while family members were holding a vigil over what they thought was his corpse.
Days earlier on October 15, the blood-soaked body of a teenage boy had been found by a passerby in the family's hometown. The face was heavily disfigured from multiple gunshot wounds to the head and neck.
Family members identified the corpse as Osman Adonay Urbina through a burn scar on one of his arms. Police then released the body to them so they could hold a wake at the family home before laying it to rest.
However, during the vigil, Mr Adonay Urbina's loved ones were stunned when they got a video call from the supposed deceased. "We were surprised because friends said, 'Here's Osman'," his mum Vilma Fuentes told local media in Honduras. "I thought it was a joke."
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Mr Adonay Urbina, who had left home three weeks earlier in an attempt to get to the US, reportedly called his mum from the Guatemala-Mexico border: "I'm here at the border. I'm alive, I'm not dead."
The family then called the police to explain the bizarre situation. Officers went to the home and determined that the corpse was, in fact, likely to be that of missing 15-year-old Jimmy Sarmiento.
Mr Sarmiento's relatives were called to the scene, confirmed the body was his and took away the coffin.
"The truth is they look alike," Ms Fuentes said. "We cleaned and mourned the body, but it wasn't him. We got confused, and the police did too."
JAM PRESS
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