Families of 22 people killed when a gunman opened fire at an El Paso Walmart gather at funerals on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to remember loved ones whose lives told the story of the vibrant region.
A mariachi musician holds onto a dove to be released at a burial service in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, for elementary school principal Elsa Mendoza, who was killed in the mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso. Mexican officials said eight of the victims in El Paso were Mexican nationals, and have called the shooting an act of terrorism against their citizens on U.S. soil.
The funeral for 66-year-old Alexander Hoffmann Roth is set for Friday afternoon in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, located just across the border from El Paso. Born in postwar Germany, he was serving in the German air force and stationed at Fort Bliss in El Paso when he crossed the border into Ciudad Juarez and met the Mexican citizen who would become his wife at a dance club.
She said that the long wait times to cross the border had made it harder as she tried to gather information about her father. The border waits have ballooned in recent months.
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