SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KMAX/KOVR) – A shocking funeral home mix-up took place in California. A lawsuit filed this week accuses a funeral home in Sacramento of shipping a stranger’s body to a family in El Salvador. Francisco Quintanilla died last November in Sacramento.

A Sacramento funeral home is accused of shipping the wrong body to a family in Central America, according to a new lawsuit filed this week. The family of Francisco Quintanilla is suing La Paz Funeral Services in Sacramento for negligence and emotional distress for the mix-up,

A Sacramento funeral home has been accused of shipping the wrong body of a loved one to his family in El Salvador and then later delivering the man’s remains in a “horrifying” state of decomposition.