Metro Victim's Family Claims Anti-Immigrant Phone Calls

HYATTSVILLE, Md. (WUSA) -- The family of Metro train crash victim Ana Fernandez says they have been targeted by anti-immigrant telephone messages in the wake of her death.

Callers accuse the family of trying to financially capitalize on Fernandez's death and have called her an illegal immigrant.

"None of this is true," said Jose Hernandez, a cousin.

Fernandez was 40-years old and the mother of six children aged 2 to 21.

She died while commuting to a house cleaning job.

Family members say the calls were left at a phone number announced by the Spanish language television outlet Univision, to leave messages of support for the family.

The messages have been erased and cannot be recovered, according to family members.