Highland Park parade shooting victim Nicolas Toledo’s family will always remember him as their hero
July 1, 2023
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, Nicolas Toledo hadn’t seen his family in Highland Park for about three years.
Finally last summer, his children thought it was safe, and he came from Mexico to stay with them, bouncing among their homes. He might spend a day fishing with one of his sons or coloring with his grandchildren at the home of one of his daughters.
“We all felt happy,” says Fabiola Toledo, one of his daughters. “We were grateful to God that we saw him alive and were able to welcome him with a hug after everything that happened with COVID.”
Read more of Elvia Malagón's reporting in the Chicago Sun-Times.
