Farewell to a young man of Cuban origin murdered in CityPlace in Doral

Family, friends and co-workers of George Alejandro Castellanos,the 23-year-old shot over the weekend while working as a security guard at the CityPlace in Doral, they said goodbye to the young man this Thursday at the Graceland funeral home.

The service in memory of George - who is survived by his parents, his partner and his little baby, just 14 months old - lasted until midnight andHundreds of people came to the place to say goodbye., as revealedTelemundo 51.

The aforementioned media stated that the young man's father, Cuban Jorge Castellanos, became very ill during the wake and had to be taken by ambulance to a hospital.

“George was the most beautiful child in this world, a wonderful child, a child who was always smiling, a noble child.”Claudia Morales, the young man's aunt, said in statements to the aforementioned media.

“He loved his mother, his father, a child from home, hardworking, well dedicated, he was truly the best thing that God has sent us, the most beautiful,” the woman added.

Also dejected was Carlos Guevara, a co-worker who George referred to as “the little brother of all of us,” because he was the youngest on the store's security team.

The week has been very hard for Castellanos' family, who on Wednesday had to collect the deceased's belongings from the authorities.

The young man's funeral was scheduled for noon this Friday.

George Castellanos' parents opened a petition on a fundraising pageGoFundMe to raise funds to help them with funeral expenses and also to support the young daughter of the deceased young man, who has now lost her father.

The magnitude of the impact on the community of the sad death of George Castellanos is measured by the impressive figure reached as of the closing of this note: $96,330.

A conflict between customers over a chair and a cushion at Martini Bar led a man to fatally shoot Castellanos last Saturday,that he had been working at that location for two years and that he intervened in the dispute to separate the contenders.

He was one month away from graduating with a degree in Biological Sciences at Florida International University (FIU) with a specialization in Criminal Justice and dreamed of being a Doral police officer, as confirmed by his family.

The murderer of George Alejandro Castellanos, 37 years old and identified as Jamal Wayne Wood, who died after beingconfronted during the incident by two Doral police officers, whose identities have not been revealed.

In the exchange of gunfire, one of the agents was wounded in the leg and six other people were also shot.

The injured have been identified as Lester Williams González (28 years old); Sonia Muñoz Torres (48); Gerard Patrick Delaney (57); Frank Miguel Jerez, (34); Yaniris Jerez (30) and Carlos Milan (38).