JUÁREZ — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke crossed the U.S.-Mexico border into Juárez Thursday to meet with officials and attend the funeral of Ivan Manzano.

Manzano is among those killed in Saturday's shooting at Walmart, that left 22 people dead, including eight people who were Mexican nationals.

"We're with them," he said following the service. "We're with the families who have been hurt. We want to demonstrate the fact that we're one community."

Earlier in the day, O'Rourke was surrounded by reporters as he crossed the Paso del Norte bridge from El Paso to Juárez.

“We are with you," was O'Rourke's message to the people of Juárez.

After he crossed the bridge, he was met by a motorcade that took him to meet Chihuahua Gov. Javier Corral Jurado and Juárez Mayor Armando Cabada.

Following the meeting around 12:30 p.m., O'Rourke arrived at Perches Funeral Homes, which offered free services to families of the victims. A bouquet of white roses was clutched in his hands.

He spent about 45 minutes with Manzano's family, who invited him to attend, before returning to El Paso.

Manzano’s family, including his mother and aunt, arrived to the funeral home moments after O’Rourke. Before stepping inside, his mother Josefina Manzano offered a few words about her son.

She said everyone would miss him greatly. But she also said she was pleased with how well people had spoken of him, and was content to see the impact that he had on so many people.

“I just recently realized, through the media, everything that he left behind,” she said. “I’m very surprised, because everything published about him, I never talked about, I didn’t notify anyone. It was all of you who were able to diffuse how he was, and for me to realize the type of son I gave birth to.”

Manzano had his own business in Ciudad Juarez.

On Aug. 3, he had gone to the Walmart in El Paso to pick up an online order for his store.

But the family become concerned, after the shooting, when they were unable to locate him. They knew he had gone to the Walmart, and his account on the popular messaging app Whatsapp showed that he was last connected at 10:21 a.m. that Saturday.

The Mexican government identified him the following day as one of eight Mexican nationals killed in the mass shooting. Manzano turned 41 on July 31, according to his family.

Manzano's service is the second funeral in Juárez for those killed in the Walmart attack.

"...Though we were meant to feel fear by the terrorist, though he wanted to change us, we will show the world how strong we are, and how our strength comes from our connection with one another," O'Rourke said.

O'Rourke's visit came one day after President Donald Trump went to El Paso, something the former Senate candidate criticized.

"This community wants to focus on healing," he told reporters. "We don't want to have someone who has shown such hatred, such racism towards El Paso to be here. But I'm also at the same time very proud of the way that El Paso responded and the way Ciudad Juarez has responded."

On Wednesday, as Trump visited El Paso, another family in Mexico grieved the loss of Elsa Mendoza de la Mora, 57. Her funeral service was the first for any of the 22 victims of the shooting.

Her family gathered at a cemetery in Juarez, a few blocks south of the Rio Grande. Her burial took place on Thursday.

Mendoza de la Mora was the principal at an elementary school in Juarez. She had gone to Walmart on Saturday with the intention to briefly pick up a few items, while her husband and youngest child waiting in the car. She didn’t make it out alive.

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