Thousands of strangers came to say goodbye to a woman who was killed in a mass shooting in El Paso after hearing her longtime companion had few family members left.
Thousands of strangers came to say goodbye to a woman who was killed in a mass shooting inAntonio Basco had told reporters he felt alone in planning the funeral for Margie Reckard, one of
Jordan Ballard, 38, of Los Angeles said she lived in New York City during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and in Oklahoma City during the 1995 federal building bombing. After reading about Basco online, she bought a plane ticket Thursday.“The potential of him experiencing this alone made me come,” she said. “I know if I was lost, my family had each other.”
He got into town, stood in line for hours to pay his respects and planned on driving all night back home for a child’s soccer practice. But he paused for a moment to look at the crowd of strangers who had created a line that wrapped around the block and into the city’s Manhattan Heights historic district.“This is El Paso, bro,” Jerry Medina, 42, of El Paso, wearing a black and red zoot suit, said when asked about the crowd.
“How I wish that you still lived, that your precious eyes had never closed, so that I could see them now,” the translated lyrics go.
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