After 16 years of living in New York, Benito Félix was planning his return to Mexico, but an accident occurred early Sunday morning that took his life.
Now, his family seeks help to repatriate his body and that he can rest in his homeland, in Veracruz.
“We ask for your support so that his body can return home to rest,” said Angélica Félix, his daughter, by telephone from Mexico.
In the incident, the taxi driver was also injured.
Felix had been covering the night shift at the business for a year.
The man’s family, made up of his wife, two daughters and four grandchildren, had not seen him physically for 16 years.
Angélica assured that her father was already planning his return to Mexico and open a business.
“He recently told us that he wanted to return, because of the weather. There were already plans, he wanted to go out, buy animals and start a meat business,” he said.
He added that He hopes that justice will be done and that the two women who were allegedly responsible for the accident can be found.
“We ask for justice. These unconscious people arrive and take his life,” he said.
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On Wednesday morning there was a procession from the school where the teacher worked to the cemetery. After this, they returned to the educational establishment, where Luz Hernández’s teachers and classmates remember her as a happy woman full of dreams. “She always showed herself to be strong, that’s why she also took me by surprise. There was a mother and wife asking for help and maybe we didn’t realize it,” said teacher Arietis Fernández.
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Luz Hernández, the Dominican teacher who was murdered last week in New Jersey, was sent off today, February 15, by her family and friends with a funeral procession.
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Through tears and roses, former co-workers paid her the ultimate tribute in front of the Beloved Charter School, where she worked.
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There the funeral limousine opened its doors, to allow her co-workers to deposit red roses on her coffin, unable to contain her tears.
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Many of them wore a black T-shirt with the message “Team Luz” on it, and they hugged each other as they cried.
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Hernandez’s body was discovered last Tuesday in a shallow grave in Kearny. Shortly after, the New Jersey medical examiner revealed that the Dominican teacher died of blunt force trauma to the head and compression to the neck.
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Mariela Salgado, a reporter for Noticias 41, covered the news and reported that it was a “beautiful day” in which the heavens opened to say goodbye to Luz Hernández, an “angel” who touched the lives of so many people for good.
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Among those who accompanied Luz Hernández on her last tour of her home and school, her students were not allowed to be present, nor were children from the school, because according to school authorities, “that would be too strong for them.”
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After receiving the last goodbyes from the teachers and friends of his school, the procession advanced towards the Bayview Cemetery in Jersey City where his remains will rest.
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The ceremony in the cemetery was very intimate, reserved only for the family, as Luz Hernández would have liked, since her family always said that she was a very discreet and reserved woman.
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Luz Hernández is survived by two sisters, her parents and three children, who remember her, in the words of her sister, “as the best daughter, sister and mother in the world”.
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César Santana, who was the husband of Luz Hernández, and the father of their three children, was arrested in Miami last week on suspicion of desecrating her body, but his murder has not yet been solved.
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Authorities say they are still looking for 26-year-old Leiner Miranda López and ask that anyone with a lead on him report it by calling Tel. (201) 915-1345.
