A distraught Brooklyn lady whose mom died within the midst of the coronavirus outbreak believes the funeral house buried the unsuitable physique.
Tamisha Covington mentioned when the hearse pulled up in entrance of her Fort Greene residence for a makeshift out of doors funeral this month, the coffin was not the extra-large one ordered by the household, and appeared too small for her mother, Deborah Harris, 60, who weighed almost 300 kilos.
“That wasn’t my mom in there,” Covington mentioned.
On the New Jersey cemetery the place Harris was buried, Covington mentioned she watched as 4 males carried the casket to the plot. She famous it had taken seven males to take away her mom from their house when she died on April 7.
“There’s no method that 4 guys may have carried my mom,” she mentioned. “The casket comes with weight, too. We don’t know what’s in that casket.”
The household used the Anthony Armistead funeral service in Brooklyn, paying $15,000. Armistead labored out of the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Providers on Utica Avenue the place police discovered dozens of our bodies being saved in unrefrigerated U-Haul vans in late April.
When Covington heard information reviews concerning the horrifying discover, she rushed to the funeral house looking for out what occurred to her mother’s physique. She believes her mom was stored in one of many vans.
The state Well being Division pulled the Cleckley house’s license on Might 1.
Covington mentioned she by no means received a promised viewing of her mom earlier than she was buried or a photograph of her within the casket.
The household is now contemplating exhuming the physique.
“I wish to know what occurred to her,” he mentioned.
Armistead instructed The Put up that Harris’ physique was stored in a funeral house freezer however wouldn’t say the place.
Requested concerning the allegation that the unsuitable physique was buried, he mentioned “I can’t entertain it.”
He mentioned he dealt immediately with Harris’ mom in dealing with the preparations and she or he had no complaints.