Before he vanished, 46-year-old Parady La had asked a cousin if she needed anything from the grocery store. But a few hours later, his car was found abandoned on the side of the road. By the end of the week, the Upper Darby man was dead after collapsing in a federal detention cell while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody.
His family and friends have now gathered in Upper Darby to remember La. They are mourning a man they describe as stylish and devoted, as they demand answers from ICE as it insists it followed protocol.
“He was like a father figure to me,” his nephew Michael La told WHYY…