Salvadoran man dies after being run over while rescuing his son in the US, asks for body to be returned to El Salvador

Irma Zavala de Mejia, a Salvadoran woman who died in a traffic accident in Florida. Quoted from Facebook

Vilma Zavala de Mejia from El Salvador was run over and killed when she ran to save one of her children. She was hit by a driver. The incident occurred last week on one of the streets in Ocala, Florida.

The family began a race against time to raise the funds and make the account available at. gofundme They are therefore asking for the help of good Samaritans to cover the costs of the funeral and repatriation of the body to its country of origin.

The victim’s husband told local media that the mother left the child she rescued and three other children orphaned. She was a much loved and respected woman in the community and the pastor of Camino Vivo Church in Ocala.

This Tuesday, members of Vilma Zavala de Mejia’s church, where she met, planned a memorial service in her memory at 10 a.m. Because she was one of the main leaders of the congregation. The church expressed its condolences to her family on its Facebook profile and said it was looking for someone to help give Wilma a holy burial.