The man who tragically died on a New York City R train last week, and whose body was horrifically abused post-mortem, has been remembered as a devoted family man and hardworking father.
His estranged wife, Teresa, painted a picture of Jorge Gonzalez as a dedicated family man with “so many dreams” before his untimely death on the subway train. “He wasn’t just a random person, he was a father, he was a family man, he cared about his family in Mexico,” shared his 38 year old ex-wife.
The New York Post revealed that Gonzalez and Teresa had been living separately for six years prior to his passing. Teresa expressed her hope that his loved ones will remember him as a kind and loving individual, rather than for the appalling events that occurred after his death.
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Teresa added: “I want him to be remembered as the lively person that he was, that he had so many dreams and so many goals that he wanted to achieve. And that’s what I want to remember … he was a person and he was somebody who had people that love him, who have people that miss him and have people who would have wanted something better for him.”
Tersea revealed that she and her husband had tied the knot back in 2012, but life wasn’t a smooth sail for Gonzalez, who struggled with alcohol addiction and battled health issues like cirrhosis, which ultimately took its toll, reports the Mirror US.
“He had been suffering,” Teresa openly shared about their life together with their 13 year old son. “He had been battling with alcoholism, he had cirrhosis, so that pretty much just caught up to him.”
The mystery deepened on Tuesday when a medical examiner stated an autopsy was inconclusive in determining Gonzalez’s cause of death, signalling the need for further investigation despite earlier assumptions that he might have died of natural causes.
Gonzalez, his widow recounted, moved to the U.S. from Mexico in 2005, driven by the dream to provide for his family. “He did many things,” she remembered, listing the array of jobs he took on, from construction to kitchen work, all in the pursuit of a better life.
Teresa, however, lamented that drinking often overpowered him, leaving him to wander the city’s subway system during his bouts with the bottle.
Police say that around 11:45 p.m. on April 8, security cameras caught a man having sex with Gonzalez’s corpse shortly after the man had passed away. Authorities say that the despicable act happened just before the man exited at the Whitehall Street station in Lower Manhattan.
According to The Post, Teresa has been determinedly seeking to reclaim her former husband’s body in order to return his remains to his family in Mexico for a proper burial. “I just don’t understand how something like that could happen,” shared a bewildered Teresa.
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