Friday’s visitation will be the first in Manny Martinez’s new location in the Clearing neighborhood near Midway Airport. But the funeral won’t be for a stranger — it will be for his son, Daniel Martinez, a Chicago native and a veteran of the U.S. Marines who was stabbed to death outside a Boston bar on March 19.
"Never in my dreams would I want to do this, and now I have to," Martinez said, a quaver in his voice.The family of a Chicago area Marine killed in Boston is planning to file to a civil lawsuit against the employer of the man accused in his death.against the bar that they hope brings some answers in Daniel Martinez’s killing.
Daniel Martinez’s final tour of duty ended last fall. Martinez loved to travel. He was in Boston to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with some of his buddies, his family said, when he was stabbed outside Sons of Boston bar on Union Street.On March 19, Martinez, 23, and a friend were waiting in line outside the bar, before being denied entry after a brief conversation with a bouncer, according to Suffolk County prosecutors.