ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER CHRISTINE
PAE SPOKE TO HIS LOVED ONES IN
ABIQUIU.
REPORTER: WE ARE INSIDE BODE'S
GENERAL STORE WHERE MANUEL
SERRANO WAS SHOT AND YOU CAN SEE
A MEMORIAL WHERE HE IS KEPT IN
MEMORY AND WHERE PEOPLE CAN
DONATE TO THE SERRANO FAMILY.
BUT THOSE WHO KNEW HIM BEST SAY
DON'T WANT TO REMEMBER HOW HE
DIED, BUT HOW HE LIVED.
>> I WANT TO REMEMBER HIM THE
WAY HE TREATED ME AND OTHERS.
REPORTER: AND THE WAY MANUEL
SERRANO TREATED OTHERS WAS
EXCEPTIONAL, ACCORDING TO HIS
LONGTIME FRIEND AND CO-WORKER,
DEXTER TRUJILLO.
HE WAS AWAYS DOING THINGS
THAT PEOPLE DIDN'T WANT TO DO,
HE WOULD
YOU KNOW, FIX DOORS, BROKEN
WINDOWS, PLASTER, WHATEVER HAD
TO BE DONE.
REPORTER: NOT ONLY WAS SERRANO A
HANDY MAN, HE WAS A WELL KNOWN
AND WELL RESPECTED IN
YOUNGSVILLE, WHERE HE LIVED AND
SERVED AS MAYORDOR AT SAN PEDR
CHURCH.
SERRANO WAS ALSO A BIG CORONADO
LEOPARDS FAN, AND SERVED AS A
SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER FOR JEME
MOUNTAIN SCHOOLS.
IN ABIQUIU, SERRANO WORKED AS A
SECURITY GUARD AT THE GEORGIA
O'KEEFFE MUSEUM FOR MORE THAN
THREE DECADES.
HE WAS THE TYPE OF PERSON WHO
IF HE SAID HE WOULD DO THINGS,
HE WOULD DO THEM AND NOT ONLY
WITH PRIDE, BUT BE THERE EARLY.
REPORTER: SERRANO WAS ALSO A
PROUD FAMILY MAN, A FATHER OF
TWO DAUGHTERS, AND GRANDFATHER
TO THREE AGAIN KIDS -- THREE
GRANDKIDS.
>> THERE WERE HIS PRIDE AND JOY.
REPORTER: SO IT CAME AS AN
IMMENSE SHOCK TO SERRANO'S
FAMILY AND THE CLOSE-KNIT
COMMUNITY WHEN THEY RECEIVED
NEWS OF SERRANO'S MURDER.
>> WHEN YOU LIVE IN A CLOSE
COMMUNITY, YOU HEAR OF THINGS
GOING ON IN THE OUTSIDE WORLD
, BUT YOU NEVER THINK IT'S GOING
TO BE IN YOUR FRONT YARD.
REPORTER: SERRANO'S FUNERAL IS
SCHEDULED AT THE SAN PEDRO
CEMETERY TOMORROW.
REPORTING FROM ABIQUIU,
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