The wife of the taxi driver who was found murdered in SeaTac earlier this month will not be allowed to attend her husband's funeral.

Jagit Singh was found with two gunshot wounds to the head inside his burned Farwest cab. Investigators believe a teenager shot the driver for easy money, then set the the cab on fire.

The killing devastated the close-knit community of drivers.

"They call him for service, when he goes there they kill him. That's a very sad story," said Ephrem Assafa, a cab driver.

Nearly all the cab drivers who work for Farwest Taxi are east-Indian Sikhs from the Punjab region. They raised nearly $10,000, hoping to fly in Singh's widow from India in time for the cremation ceremony.

"We want to just help. We think we are family members, you know," said driver Bhupinger Singh.

But it turns out Singh's widow, who lives in India, will not be allowed to attend his funeral. The U.S. Embassy will not issue a visa for the visit.

Now only his fellow drivers will be at the funeral home to say goodbye.

"I'm a driver, he's a driver. So I'm just trying to support the family. That's why I'm going to go there," Assafa said.

Investigators have charged 18-year-old Earnest L. Collins, Jr., with first-degree murder in the shooting of Singh. Friends and associates told investigators Collins had been losing money gambling with dice at a housing project in Seattle and talked of "jacking someone" or robbing cab drivers to get cash.

Singh, reportedly working an overnight taxi shift to raise money to visit his wife in India, was dispatched to the home of Collins' family home in SeaTac around 2:30 a.m. July 10, sheriff's Detective Eleanor R. Broggi wrote in a court filing.

A trail of pennies led up the driveway of the Collins home from where the cab was first seen on fire, Broggi wrote. In a search of the family's home, investigators found clothing with burn marks.

Collins was captured in Chicago on July 25th. He is awaiting extradition with bail set at $5 million.