Carlos Espinoza Prado’s mother answered a knock on her son’s mobile home near Greeley on Wednesday morning. Maria Prado opened the door, wearing her hair in a half-done bun and a tired look on her face, appearing not to have slept.
She was connected to two of six people who died at Prospect Valley Dairy Farm in Keenesburg on Aug. 20 — five Hispanic men and one 17-year-old Hispanic boy — with little information surfacing since. Prado is the former partner of the eldest victim, Alejandro Espinoza, in addition to being the mother of Carlos, who was 29.
Opening the door only halfway, she said in Spanish that the family has not learned any news beyond what has been reported in the media, pertaining to compensation or the accident itself, wiping her eyes as she spoke…