HOUSTON — Two of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s sons received a steady stream of hugs, handshakes and besos Thursday evening from hundreds of people they’ve never met, who came to a funeral home in the city’s east side to grieve him as one of their own.
At the public viewing at Forest Park Lawndale Funeral Home, which was followed by a Catholic rosary, visitors said that’s what it means to live in Houston’s east end and to be part of the Latino community: stand up together, and grieve together.
“How could we not show up and be here?” said Luke Orlando, who lives 10 minutes from where Salgado Araujo was shot and killed on July 7 by a federal immigration agent. “It could have been any of us, any of our neighbors.”…