Would you dance next to a dead body on display in a night club? This happened in New York!

Imagine dancing and drinking amid fireworks while the dead body of a singer is hung in the nightclub, with the eyes opened!

New York has seen it all and the pandemic has brought even more disturbing trends to the big apple.

The gruesome display of a dead rapper’s body in a nightclub where fans danced and fireworks went off outraged Instagram users, who called it ‘strange,’ ‘disturbing,’ and ‘disrespectful.’

The controversy arose when club Bliss in New York conducted a “funeral’”with what seemed to be the embalmed body of the up-and-coming rapper Goonew, who was shot dead during a heist two weeks ago.

Fans of the rapper were shocked when cellphone recordings from the event, nicknamed The Final Show, were released on Sunday night at club Bliss in Washington, DC.

It’s not real for them. That someone would shoot her son and their brother in the back. One shot that would ultimately kill Markelle Morrow, better known as GOONEW. Tonight at 11 on @wusa9 we hear from his family about the sudden & tragic loss. pic.twitter.com/wvrlvzBw1h

— Megan Rivers (@MegMRivers) March 19, 2022

The 24-year-old rapper, whose real name is Markelle Morrow, was killed on March 18 in the District Heights neighbourhood’s 3400 block of Walters Lane.

Patrice Parker Morrow, his mother, told NBC4 that her son was shot in the back during a robbery and that a beautiful jewelled pendant he always wore was stolen.

Videos from the nightclub event show what looks to be Morrow’s body propped up on a stage with his eyes open, dressed in a designer Amiri hooded sweatshirt, ripped pants with flames, and sneakers, with a watch and a gold crown.

While multi-coloured strobe lights fill the packed venue, the crowd can be seen dancing and singing. Fireworks are set off,  next to Morrow at one point. Others defended Morrow’s physique on stage, claiming that it was what his family desired.

On Monday, the management of Bliss nightclub issued an Instagram message attempting to separate itself from the developing controversy over the send-off. Police are offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of  Morrow’s killers

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