Rights Activist in Mexico Who Fed Train-Hopping Immigrants Is Slain Tracy Wilkinson - The Los Angeles Times
go to original November 28, 2014

Good Samaritan Adrian Rodriguez, center background, in June gives Central American migrants beverages in Tequixquiac, Mexico. Rodriguez was recently slain. (Tracy Wilkinson/Los Angeles Times)

A Mexican good Samaritan who dedicated his scarce resources to feeding Central American migrants passing by on La Bestia train was slain this week along with a friend who assisted him, fellow activists said.

Adrian Rodriguez, who was featured in a Los Angeles Times article in June, was shot three times as he visited his parents, receiving wounds to the head, chest and leg. He died immediately.

His friend, a Honduras native named Wilson, was shot five times and died the next morning, fellow activist Jorge Andrade said in an interview.

"It is really worrisome that a person dedicated to giving humanitarian aid to migrants be subjected to this kind of suffering," Andrade said. All three men participated in an ad hoc group called You All Are Us, which cares for migrants passing through Mexico.

Associates suspect that the killings were tied to a February attack by an armed gang on a group of migrants.

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