NY gov due to meet with family of slain immigrant
December 18, 2008

NEW YORK - Police continue to investigate the beating death of an Ecuadorean immigrant in Brooklyn as a possible hate crime as his family prepares to have his body flown home for burial.

Gov. David Paterson is scheduled to meet with relatives of Jose Sucuzhanay (suh-KOO'-chen-eye) on Thursday, along with Ecuadorean government officials.

The 31-year-old real estate broker was beaten Dec. 7 by men spouting anti-Latino and anti-gay slurs as he walked arm in arm with his brother near his home in Bushwick.

Sucuzhanay's mother and brothers were among the mourners at a funeral held for him Wednesday in Brooklyn. Bells tolled as his coffin _ draped in an Ecuadorean flag _ was carried from church.

A reward of nearly $30,000 is being offered for information leading to arrests in the slaying.

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