Fri, Jun. 20, 2008
Officials searching for relatives of family slain in Houston
The Associated Press
HOUSTON -- After identifying a couple from El Salvador slain in an apparent murder-suicide that included the deaths of three young children last month, authorities are now searching for relatives to claim the five bodies.
The couple has been identified as Salvador Perez Alfaro, 42, and Estela Marilu Quintanilla, 34, according to the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office. The identities of three children found in their rural northeast Houston home May 10 have not been confirmed.
The Medical Examiner's Office has ruled that Alfaro committed suicide and that Quintanilla and the three children were killed by gunshot wounds.
Lawyers and activists said that the two adults had authorization to live and work in the country under a humanitarian program known as Temporary Protective Status.
Members of Houston's immigrant community said Alfaro told them he was a former member of El Salvador's military forces. They said that the man who earned his living as a roofing contractor was quiet, honest and hard-working.
Alfaro often picked up day laborers and was using them for a roofing job the week before his death, said Francisco Soltis, director of the East Side Job Development Center.
"We talked, but he wasn't really very communicative. He was very serious," Soltis told the Houston Chronicle for its Friday editions. "From what the persons who went to work with him told me, he never failed to pay them. I can tell you that."
TPS was created by Congress to allow immigrants to remain in the country if armed conflicts, environmental disasters or other extraordinary conditions prevented them from safely returning to their homeland. Because of hurricanes that devastated Central America, TPS is available to immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
The TPS regulations didn't allow Alfaro and Quintanilla to travel home.
"We are needing the community's help in locating the loved ones of this family," said Jennifer Coston, deputy chief investigator in the medical examiner's office.
http://www.star-telegram.com/448/story/710624.html
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I know to family of this person. The sister of Salvador Perez Alfaro is named Maria del Carmen Rodriguez Alfaro his phone number is (503) 7890-7716 she live in San Bartolo, Ilopango, "Las Cañas", San Salvador City, El Salvador, Please if you call to this person please talk in spanish, she can't speak english.
Yo conozco a la familia de esta persona. La hermana de Salvador Perez Alfaro se llama Maria del Carmen Rodriguez Alfaro su numero telefonico es (503) 7890-7716 ella vive en San Bartolo, Ilopango, "Las Cañas", San Salvador City, El Salvador, Por favor si usted llama esta persona por favor hable en español, ella no puede hablar ingles.
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