Are we so over run with illegals that they are to pop up in otherwise non-illegal related news stories?
May he rest in peace.
But here are 2 more, this time wrapped up in the Minnesota bridge collapse
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-08-02-bridge-victims_N.htm
Five confirmed dead in Minneapolis bridge collapse
Updated
By Elizabeth Flores, Star Tribune via AP
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed five deaths Thursday from the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge. Seventy-nine people were injured. Police said the death count would surely grow because bodies had been spotted in the fast-moving currents. As many as 30 people were still reported missing. Here is a closer look at the lives lost:
ARTEMIO TRINIDAD-MENA
Artemio Trinidad-Mena, 29, lived in Minneapolis but was a Mexican citizen with a young family scattered across the two countries.
His widow, Abundia Martinez, told Radio Formula in a telephone interview that her husband was a vegetable salesman and that he was heading home at the time of the accident.
Martinez, who lives in Minneapolis with the couple's 2-month-old baby girl, said her husband arrived in the United States 10 years ago. She said she moved to Minneapolis from Mexico a year ago and that both were living in the Unites States illegally.
The couple has three other children, ages 11 to 2, living with relatives in their hometown of Ixcateopan de Cuauhtemoc, in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero, Martinez said.
"We're asking for financial help mainly because my children are in Mexico and I have a little girl here and more importantly because we want to send my husband's body to Mexico," she said, sobbing.
At New York Plaza Produce, where Trinidad-Mena worked, friends and family gathered Thursday night to remember him.
Julio Alvarado recalled a man with an outsize personality and a cheery outlook.
"He was very happy, always looking at everything in just a positive, good way," he said.
Alvarado said Trinidad Mena left work around 5:30 Wednesday night.
He was driving a pickup, which apparently caught fire after the bridge collapsed
