A Janaazah ( funeral) service will be held on June 23, 2023 in the Futa Islamic Center on 3400 Third Avenue at 1: 15 PM for Alfa Ousmane Barrie who apparently died from drowning. His body was recovered in May from the Hudson River in Harlem . The event will be followed by the Maqbarah ( interment) of Barrie at the Marlboro Muslim Memorial Cemetery in New Jersey.
Alfa Ousmane Barrie, 11, and Garrett Warren,13, went missing on May 12, 2023, and their bodies were found in the Hudson River. Both boys attended Democracy Prep Public School in Harlem.