Column: From a Tommy’s security job to a ride home on Metro, her last hours alive

The train pulled into the North Hollywood station Monday at 4:45 a.m., and I boarded with a handful of other riders headed south. I’m afraid,” L.A. County Supervisor and Metro board member Kathryn Barger said last week as Metro declared a safety emergency after Soza Arauz’s killing and called for stepping up security measures, including the use of facial recognition technology. :: On Monday, before I boarded the train at the North Hollywood station, I drove to the Tommy’s in North Hills, thinking all the while about the last hours of Soza Arauz’s life, about the inconvenience of her nightly trek all the way down to South Los Angeles, where she and a son lived together. that hardworking everyday citizen that works and busts their behind to put food on the table, who is the backbone of a family — who has family back in their native land waiting for them to return,” said Juan Castillo, the son-in-law of Mirna Soza Arauz. “I was talking to her,” he said, and Soza Arauz was still conscious, but “she couldn’t talk.” Minutes later, she was rushed to Cedars-Sinai, where she died.