PHOTOS: Funeral for Bobby Salcedo

Carlos Salcedo, brother of Bobby Salcedo, embraces another mourner at services to honor the El Monte school board member, seen as a rising star in the community.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Salcedo is remembered at his funeral. The 33-year-old and his wife, Betzy, had traveled to her hometown of Gomez Palacio, Mexico, and were out with friends the night before New Year’s Eve when unknown gunmen entered a bar and forced Salcedo and five other men to leave. All six were found dead outside the city in the state of Durango  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Today’s service in El Monte followed an event on Jan. 4 at Mountain View High School, when thousands of people filled the bleachers to remember Salcedo, a former student and later an administrator at the high school.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Betzy Salcedo, the widow of Bobby Salcedo, follows as pallbearers carry his coffin from the Nativity Church to a waiting hearse after his funeral service in El Monte. Cardinal Roger Mahony, lower right, was one of the officiants.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Murder victim Bobby Salcedo’s widow, Betzy, is greeted by mourners after his funeral at Nativity Church in El Monte.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

More than 1,500 mourners pay their respects to Bobby Salcedo at the Nativity Church in El Monte.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

The hearse carrying the body of Bobby Salcedo passes under a memorial flag strung between two L.A. County Fire Department trucks as the funeral procession leaves Nativity Church in El Monte.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)