Worker killed in Boise hangar collapse was supporting his family in Guatemala, his uncle says

Deon J. Hampton is a national reporter for NBC News.

The uncle of one of three men killed in a building collapse in Boise, Idaho, says his nephew was working so his family in Guatemala could have a car and a roof over their heads. Oscar Tzy said that mourning his nephew, Mario Sontay, 32, has been the 'toughest part' of losing him in the Jan. 31 collapse of a hanger that was being built to house private jets at the Boise Airport.

“Mario was very versed in the steel industry, in all components of assembling,” Tzy said, adding that his nephew was so talented, Sontay figured he could land decent-paying jobs in the U.S. Tzy did not say whether Sontay entered the U.S. with appropriate legal documents. Almost half the people in Guatemala live in poverty, according to Brookings Institution, a public policy think tank in Washington. For the first few years, Sontay’s plan worked, his uncle said.

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