A 19-year-old farmworker killed in a Florida bus crash was saving money to get married, his mom says
The mother of 19 year-old farmworker killed in a Florida bus crash says he was saving money to get married
QUERÉTARO, Mexico — One of the Mexican farmworkers killed in Florida when a pickup truck sideswiped their bus had arrived in the U.S. only 15 days before to work and save money for his marriage, his mother said.
Alfredo Tovar Sánchez, 19, who came to the U.S. through a temporary workers program, never found out that his fiancée is two months pregnant, his mother, María Sánchez, said in an interview this week with Telemundo News.
“I feel I can’t continue without my son,” she said through tears at her home in Mexico. “I’ve been left with so much pain. I don’t know that I can live with this pain.”
Sánchez said her son’s plan was to spend two months in Florida harvesting melons so he could save enough money to help build a house and get married.
Family and friends gathered at Sánchez’s home in an impoverished area in central Mexico on Wednesday to grieve her son, who lived there with her, his five sisters and his fiancée.
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