Slaying Victim's Ashes Scattered Down Subway Grate
NEW YORK (AP) -- Friends and family members of a slain Portuguese journalist have scattered his ashes down a Times Square subway grate.
A funeral was held in Newark, N.J. Saturday for 65-year-old Carlos Castro.
The New York Post and the Daily News reported that Castro's two sisters and a friend then brought Castro's ashes to Times Square and poured them down a subway grate. They said they were carrying out his wishes.
Authorities say Castro was castrated and killed in a Manhattan hotel room on January 7.
Prosecutors say 21-year-old Renato Seabra has confessed to the slaying. Seabra is in custody at Bellevue Hospital.
Friends in New York said Castro and Seabra were a couple. But Seabra's mother told Portugal's TVIndependente television network that her son "was not Carlos Castro's lover."
(Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
