Juan Romero, Busboy Who Aided Wounded Robert Kennedy, Dies

Romero with Sen. Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles moments after Kennedy was shot. The Los Angeles Times reported on Oct. 4, 2018, that Romero died Monday in Modesto, California, at age 68. Jud Esty-Kendall/Storycorps via AP

LOS ANGELES—Juan Romero, a hotel busboy who came to the aid of Robert F. Kennedy after the New York senator was shot in Los Angeles, has died. He was 68.

Longtime family friend Rigo Chacon said Thursday that Romero had died at a Modesto, California, hospital on Oct. 1, following a heart attack.