Bartender killed while intervening in car theft remembered on Near We…

Remedios Herrera remembers her older brother Salvador, known affectionately as Salv, as someone who was always helping people. She recalled a recent time where he invited migrants to a McDonald’s so they could eat together. And even though he had no kids of his own, Salvador was great with children, often spreading his love of the White Sox with them, his sister said.

Then in October, Salvador Herrera was killed trying to stop a car theft. “He died trying to help someone,” Herrera said.

In the early morning of Oct. 15, Salvador Herrera was heading home from his shift at Butterfield Country Club in Oak Brook when he saw a group attempting to steal an unoccupied car on the city’s Near West Side, his family said. The 42-year-old bartender tried to intervene and stop the burglary but was killed by the robbers.

Chicago police said he was shot in the back and found in a vehicle by an officer on patrol in the 700 block of South Loomis Street. His family said he was lying there for an…