Jose Uel Hernandez

Death by Force

On a warm evening in Las Vegas, a sense of foreboding weighed heavily on Maria Blanca Hernandez. That feeling became a devastating reality on the night of September 21, 2014, when her 16-year-old son, Jose Uel Hernandez, a Hispanic male, was senselessly killed in a shooting. Jose, who had been brought to the United States from El Salvador by his mother to escape violence, found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time in a city he now called home.

That night, Jose was a passenger in a ...Read More

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