A 14-year-old boy from Honduras drowned in the Rio Grande River while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border to be reunited with his mother in Texas.
HOUSTON — Cristopher Alvarado Sabillón couldn't wait to be reunited with his mother in Texas. But those hopes ended in tragedy this week after the Honduran teen drowned in the Rio Grande River, his family said.
But she was never able to hold on to Cristopher. It was so dark, the 16-year-old girl could barely see anything. That's when she started yelling out her brother's name. Four days later, Roxana Sabillón, Cristopher’s mother, received a photo confirming her worst fear. Her son’s body was found floating on the Mexican side of the river."They took away half my life, they took it away from me," the mother told Noticias Telemundo an hour later, still in disbelief."Now all I have left is standing next to a wooden box to give him his last goodbye. And that hug that I didn't give him," Sabillón said in Spanish.