Atlanta, United States.
Three brothers of Honduran parents were killed in a fatal road accident on a highway in Paulding County, northwest of the Atlanta city, Georgia.
The three brothers were transported in a BMW car and eventually crashed into a van, causing their vehicle to be completely destroyed in the collision, while the other driver was taken to a hospital.
The victims are Edgar Manrique Mendoza (21)who drove the car, Kevin Mendoza (15) and Melvin Espinal (12)The three lived with a sister in an aunt’s house, located in the town of Douglasville, always in Georgia.
The Georgia State Patrol indicated in its preliminary report that Edgar would have raided part of the opposite lane around 8:50 PM, at which point they turned off the road in a bend and then returned to the road in their intention to correct the maneuver and seconds later they passed the center line, then the accident happened.
A sister of the victims confirmed to LA PRENSA that Édgar (older brother) moved to the United States in late 2016, while Kevin and Melvin traveled in January this year. It was also learned that the three brothers were US citizens but lived in Honduras for several years.
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Édgar worked laying ceramics in the United States, while his two brothers had just started their studies. The three lived with a sister in an aunt’s house.
When asked what had happened, her sister also reported that the three they had just left a family dinner and they went home, then the accident happened.
After hearing the terrible news, the three brothers’ family went on to raise money through a GoFundMe campaign with the aim of repatriating their bodies to San Pedro Sula.
The process that the family goes through every day is more difficult, as steps have been taken with organizations in the United States to send the bodies to Honduras, but it is a process that involves a lot of time and money, increasing safety. of the family in Honduras.
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Their relatives have applied to the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa for emergency appointments to reach that country, considering burial of the young people, as one of the options offered to repatriate the bodies is to be burned to ashes. this increases the pain and suffering of the mother and other family members.
Given. In September 2020, another of his brothers, who worked in the Central de Abastos, was murdered in the Pradera de San Pedro Sula neighborhood.