The family of the father-of-six who was the victim of a senseless, fatal beating by a stranger in his Bronx apartment building will accompany his body home to Gambia on Sunday.
First, though, Bakary Darboe’s body was washed and prayed over in accordance with Islamic tradition, Saturday at a Harlem funeral home.
“We will wash him and do prayers,” said his first cousin, Basiru Sawaneh, 47.
“Tomorrow, he will go back to Gambia.
Darboe, 46, was leaving his East 156th Street apartment at 5 p.m. Thursday when a total stranger, identified by police as career con Junal Jordan, pulled him out of a seventh floor elevator and pummeled him with his fists.
The attack was captured on hallway surveillance cameras; parolee Jordan, 40, is being held on murder charges.
“He never got to go back home yet — he said when he finished school he would go,” Darboe’s brother, Mbemba, 61, said sadly, noting the Darboe, a lab technician at NYU had been in the US for nearly a dozen years.
“Tomorrow, at 11, he will fly back home with his wife, because our mom wants to see him,” the brother said, describing “home” as a small village named Parkalba.
“There is only one cemetery,” he said.
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