Salgado’s son, Ronaldo Salgado, posted on Facebook that an in-person visitation will be held for his father from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday, July 16, at the Great Chapel at Forest Park Lawndale.
“My family would like to express our heartfelt gratitude for the unbelievable and incredible support we have received,” Ronaldo Salgado wrote.
The family and community leaders have called for transparency in Salgado’s death. League of United Latin American Citizens CEO Juan Proaño said Salgado’s wife was unable to claim his body because of legal documentation issues.
Shortly after Salgado’s death, LULAC launched a GoFundMe page for his family with an initial goal of $25,000. It has since raised nearly $500,000 from close to 11,000 donations, as of Monday. The largest donation came from social media activist and content creator Carlos Eduardo Espina, who gave $20,000 to the family.
“This is something that has brought a lot of people — not just Latinos, but many communities — together who see what’s going on,” Espina said during a news conference. “It’s now become something that has united people across many races and, I would even say, political parties.”
Salgado was killed during an ICE operation in Houston’s Magnolia Park neighborhood.
Salgado was driving his employees, Daniel Tirado Pantoja, Jose Trinidad Rojas and Victor Salgado, to work when ICE agents began chasing the vehicle in unmarked SUVs with no sirens or cameras to record the encounter, according to U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia.
The three employees are at an ICE processing center in Conroe.