Trying to make ends meat, selling popsicles for a dollar a piece, the ice cream salesmen at La Michoacana have a tough job.
"I sell popsicles in the main streets."
Jose Solis has been selling ice cream for almost 12 years, it's a job he loves but not one that pays much.
"Sometimes a little more than a hundred, sometimes less than a hundred. Really we don't make a lot of money."
Solis says working the streets of South Omaha, can be dangerous especially after dark.
"When it's dark I try to come back to the company, for my safety and because it's so dangerous."
Solis feels sad for his coworker, Gilberto Hernandez-Vazquez.
On Thursday night Vazquez was selling ice cream from his push cart near 19th and Y when he was shot in the face.
Solis doesn't know why it happened, but he hopes it wasn't for the money.
"The bad people, who think we make a lot of money, we don't have a lot of money, we are working really hard to make some money to survive, that's it."
Pushing a cart and ringing their bells for 8 hours a day, the owner of La Michoacana Jose Gaytan knows sales aren't always consistent and working late for an extra buck just isn't worth it.
"You know I'm not take a chance you know to someone else, one of my guys losing their life just to make an extra few dollars, it's not worth it."
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