Avonte Oquendo funeral services held in Manhattan

[hrmjustin]

Eyewitness News
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Mourners gathered Saturday to say goodbye to Avonte Oquendo, the autistic boy who went missing from his Queens school in October, and was the subject of a city-wide search.

About 200 people gathered Saturday at a Greenwich Village church for the funeral service led by the former Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, Cardinal Edward Egan.

Egan presided over the ceremony at the Church of Saint Joseph as Avonte's parents and brothers sat stoically in a front pew, next to a white casket holding the remains pulled from the East River last week.

"This morning we are grateful to God for Avonte Oquendo, for his life, for his courage, and for the acts of goodness and kindness that his life and his tragic disappearance evoked among us," Egan said. "We know that he is safely in the embrace of the father in heaven and we thank that father in heaven for the years we had with him in our midst."

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9406939

[Lucky Luciano]

1. Any news on what actually happened?

I assume he got himself into some trouble without supervision and drowned. I am surprised that there has been no word from the medical examiner regarding what they think happened.

[hrmjustin]

2. They have not said. After he left school there is no video evidence of him at all.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. As Jack Nicholson said in CHINATOWN.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10686578#post7

"You can't aways tell what's going on."

I believe he also said, " It seems like half the city is trying to cover it up....", in the same film.