“There is an abandoned trailer with several dead,” said a co-worker Roberto Quintero who without thinking went to the place where the cargo vehicle was and to his surprise he found dozens of dead piled up inside. .
Amazed by what he was seeing, Roberto Quintero made a call to 911 to ask for help.
“I saw pure lifeless bodies. (didn’t touch them) just from looking at them and from the color of their skin (I knew they were dead). They were already purple and white,” revealed Quintero.
In an interview with Telemundo, the Hispanic worker told with a lump in his throat that the trailer doors were wide open.
“When I arrived (to the place where the trailer was) the doors were already open (wide open),” he said, somewhat surprised.
Quintero suspects that it was the truck driver, Homero Zamorano, who opened the trailer doors “to see how the people and when he saw the bodies he better left”.
According to the Hispanic man, at no time were cries for “help” heard until the asphalt company where he works, but it was thanks to the alert from a colleague who knew he had to call 911 for help.
“I told (my colleague) there are more than 40 dead, because the truck is full,” Quintero recalls telling his co-worker. And he added that he saw the driver of the trailer: “He started running, my friends started chasing him, but they didn’t catch up with him. (These traffickers) are people without a heart”.
Although the panorama was bleak, Roberto Quintero was able help a girl between 12 to 14 years old whom she found lying on the asphalt asking for help : “He was asking me for help”.
After everything that Roberto Quintero saw that day, psychologically he is not feeling well and he has even had to go to the doctor to prescribe a medicine that make you feel good.
Quintero’s testimony was accompanied by uncontrollable crying just from remembering that tragic day that he has left so far 53 immigrants lifeless.