A memorial service was held Tuesday, July 5, 2022, for the 53 migrants who perished after dozens were found dead or dying in a sweltering tractor-trailer June 27 on Quintana Road on the Southwest Side. Clergy from Posada Guadalupe conducted the service as a small crowd gathered by an ever-growing memorial adorned with wooden crosses in memory of the migrants who died.who died in a human-smuggling incident on the Southwest Side were confirmed by the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Sixty-four immigrants were found in the sweltering heat of an abandoned tractor-trailer June 27 on Quintana Road. Four people were arrested in connection with the incident in the days that followed. The county worked with the consulates of Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala over the last two weeks to confirm the names, ages and nationalities of the deceased; the identity of the last potentially confirmed victim was released Monday.
Of the 53 victims, 26 were citizens of Mexico, 21 were citizens of Guatemala, and six were citizens of Honduras. The youngest of the victims, Pascual Guachiac Sipac, 13, made the journey to the United States with his 14-year-old cousin Juan Tulul Tepaz, another of the deceased. Juan Valeriano Domitilo, a 55-year-old Mexican male, was the oldest of the dead.
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