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By: Jorge Luis Macías / Special for Real America News
Saturday, September 28
Victim's wife: 'I already forgave the murderers, but I want justice'
Almost two weeks after the beating that a group of people gave her husband, outside a bar in Hawthorne, Mónica Pérez continues to demand justice for the death of her husband Melguín, at the same time who, through tears, assures that he has already forgiven the murderers.
“I have already forgiven them, but I demand justice,” said the afflicted widow and mother of four children, aged six and 14 years. “It is not fair what they did; my children were left without their father… ”
On October 9, the former security guard Melguín López Santos, of 40 years old, he was about to run over several men with his truck, on the sidewalk in front of the Rock It Sports Lounge & Grill bar, in the city of Hawthorne.
Apparently, Melguín had had an altercation with a person on the premises previously. He was kicked out of the place and returned at 2: 10 am in his truck, which went up the sidewalk and ended up colliding with a tree; he lost control and seconds later he crashed into the wall of a store.
In a video published on the internet shows that, when Melguín tries to drive in reverse, someone opens the door, takes him out of the vehicle and brutally beats him. Police are searching for four suspects.
Hawthorne police officers saw the driver lying on the ground, sustaining what appeared to be blunt force trauma. Melguín López Santos was pronounced dead at the scene, reported the sheriff’s agent, Grace Medrano. So far, no one has been arrested.
“I ask, why did some men take him out of the bar and not the security people? ”, Questioned Mónica Pérez. “What happened was not an accident; it was a murder … many people saw what happened and here someone is being covered up. ”
Josefina Pérez, Mónica’s aunt, described Melguín López Santos as “a man of the home, who drank his beers from time to time and was struggling to get away from drinking.”
“I told Mónica to forgive the murderers from my heart so that she is at peace with God ”, said the woman.
Mónica Pérez, her family and community activists publicly asked the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to present a motion to offer a reward and capture those responsible for the death of Melguín.
“This was a lynching and that is crazy,” Najee Ali, an activist from Los Angeles, told Real America News. “A lynching is no different when the culprits are the Hispanics themselves; we are all people and we have to live as people not as barbarians. ”
Ali added that“ simply ”, Melguin’s attackers should have expected that the police will arrive.
“But what they did was commit a summary street justice trial and I think we can’t have a civilization with this kind of mentality,” he said.
During a recent demonstration in front of the Rock It Sports Lounge & Grill bar, a son of the victim – now an orphan – joined the demand for justice for his father and lit a candle in his memory , on a makeshift altar.
It was Brandon López, from 14 years, the eldest son of Melguín.
“My father once told me that when he was no longer here, that I had to be the head of the house,” the young man told Real America News.
Save Because life has changed radically, Brandon knows that he will have to fight a lot for his mother and his sisters Stephanie, Abigail and Karina.
” My dad bought me my shoes and my clothes; he was a good father … he was a good person … he was my best friend, and now I have to take his place. ”
To help the family
The family has opened a GoFundMe account to bury her husband. If you like helping the family, visit Gofundme.com and write Please Help Monica Perez And Heer 4 Children