Salazar (Day of the Dead)

Salazar

Background

Salazar is a private in the Colorado National Guard.

During the events of Day of the Dead (2008) played by Nick Cannon

In Leadville, Colorado, Salazar arrives with Bud Crain and Soldier to a roadblock. They introduce themselves to Sarah Bowman. Sarah puts Salazar and the other Soldier on guard duty, while she and Crain take a humvee to Francine Bowman's house. Later, Salazar walks into the hospital and he tells Sarah that he came with Captain Rhodes. People start changing into Wildfire Zombies, and Sarah and Crain use the air ducts to travel back to where Rhodes' body and find Salazar and Salazar takes Rhodes' pistol, while Sarah gets his keys. Rhodes reanimates and attacks Sarah, but she is able to get away. As Crain is putting the vent back, Rhodes Zombie bites him and Salazar shoots Rhodes Zombie. Salazar wants to shoot Crain, but Sarah convinces him not to. While they are running to the humvee, Doctor Logan leaves the others. Sarah. Crain and Salazar make it to the humvee and drive away. Sarah and Salazar go to the gun store and grab weapons and ammunition and Crain starts bleeding from his nose. When Sarah and Salazar get back to the humvee, Crain has transformed into a Zombie. She hears Trevor Bowman asking for help. As Francine is about to attack Trevor, Sarah runs her over with the humvee.

Everyone gets in the humvee and they drive to the roadblock. They are attacked by the Soldier and other Soldiers, who are now all Zombies. They drive away and as they are driving, Kyle Zombie jumps onto the humvee. Sarah crashes the humvee and then shoots Kyle Zombie dead. They decide to head towards the old Nike plant. A large group of Zombies enter the building and Sarah, Salazar, Trevor and Nina enter a secret underground facility, while Crain is surrounded by other Zombies. They go into an office and sees someone has started deleting files on Project Wildfire. They find Doctor Logan hiding and he tells them that there is no evidence the research he was involved with is what is responsible for the Zombies. Trevor finds a video and plays it and on the video Scientist says that the virus mutated and all the researchers became infected. During the video, the Scientist changes into a Zombie. Doctor Logan tells them that the virus was supposed to paralyze enemy troops and was intended to save lives. They hear a growl and the Scientist Zombie is standing in the hallway. They shoot at it, but it dodges the bullets and disappears. As they are trying to escape, Doctor Logan is grabbed by the Scientist Zombie and killed. Trevor thinks they should split up to find an exit and he goes with Nina, while Sarah goes with Salazar. Salazar finds the missile silo entrance, but is swarmed by Zombies and killed.