"Muy trabajadora"

Detectives sought the public's help Friday in solving the killing of Celerino Reyes, 40, shot in a robbery attempt June 8 just north of the 10 Freeway on Mateo Street--a dingy industrial area just south of downtown Los Angeles. Reyes' assailants came up to his car window and shot him. The wound may have caused him to hit the gas; his car careened into a palm tree.

Reyes came to this country from Michoacan state in Mexico about 16 years ago with few resources. He had a small car.

He drove it around, delivering wooden pallets to businesses. He brought others with cars into the business, and it grew and grew. He helped family members here and in Mexico.

A tall, well-groomed, happy man, he was notorious for lecturing everyone in his family on the importance of hard work and responsibility. He would try to help them organize their lives and goals, constantly whipping out sheets for lists and instructions, circling this or that point for emphasis.

He was a father of five. "Muy trabajadora," one family member said, describing his lifestyle: "Hard-working." Above, his sister, a daughter, a niece and her family, and a son (in back on right) talking to LAPD Newton detectives at a news conference Friday in South-Central. There is a $50,000 reward for information in the case. Detectives have a still clip from a video of the suspects, whom they believe followed Reyes from the bank.

They also have a picture of the suspects' car. They ask anyone with tips about the suspects to call them at (323) 846-6556.

Comments

[ruben]

T.C
Nobody is griping except you. We are all just trying to survive and do best with what we got. I think blacks and latinos love and appreciate this country more than you do, just ask the California military recruits dept., thats a definition of a true American, the people who fight and die for this country, who enlist just for a greencard as many of them do, who battle on the front lines not from Washington, those are the true Americans, but i can bet my life you don't know anything about that do you T.C. All you do is sit there and complain how Mexicans ruin this country, if your so patriotic and love this country so much why dont you go to North and South Dakota and kiss the asses of all the Native Americans your ancestors killed and tell them thank you for this land.

[t.c.]

its like a blackboard, asphalt jungle now from tijuana to blaine, washington.
that's from the southernmost border, to the northernmost. too much
real estate development. the rats maze is too much. the rats
scurry for the cheese. i was born just off los angeles's skid row on
hope st. in 1950. the population was rather reasonable then.
every winter, 3 million more people invade calipornia, and stay here
and gripe about it the rest of their lives.

[ruben]

Definition of a true man, hard working, took care of and loved his family, this is the typical immigrant from Latin America, so all the people saying immigration is the problem in U.S take a look in the mirror, Immigrants built this town and work hard in it. This man was taken from his family in a way he did not deserve i hope these guys are caught and justice is served.