An investigation is underway after authorities said a Borough Park man was murdered while visiting Colombia.<\/p>\n
A funeral was held in Brooklyn on Friday for Nuchem Aber, a member of the Jewish Hasidic community.<\/p>\n
A friend of the victim told News 12 that he had known Aber for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody expected this, especially a close friend like me,\u201d said Yossi, who only gave his first name. \u201cI\u2019m still in shock, and this whole week I didn\u2019t sleep much.\u201d <\/p>\n
According to Colombian news reports, the 51-year-old victim was robbed and killed by a local gang.<\/p>\n
Colombian Sen. Lorena Rios Cuellar expressed her condolences on social media and demanded justice, calling the violent murder \u201can atrocious act.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yossi said he spoke to Aber on the phone just days before he disappeared on April 21. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was very upbeat that he was potentially going to find a new wife and that he could build a new family,\u201d said Yossi. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say he was concerned about anything.\u201d <\/p>\n
Yossi told News 12 that Aber had gotten divorced about five years ago and had four adult children. He traveled to Colombia in early April. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe told me he was going for Passover with one of the local rabbis that has a community in Bogota,\u201d said Yossi. \u201cHe was going to spend the Passover holiday with him and he\u2019s going to try to find a new wife.\u201d <\/p>\n
Aber was originally from Canada and worked in real estate. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was going back and forth, I understand, from Colombia back and forth for the last half year maybe,\u201d said Yossi.<\/p>\n
A source told News 12 that Aber\u2019s body was being flown to Israel over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after authorities said a Borough Park man was murdered while visiting Colombia. A funeral…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-217191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}