El Paso once again proved it's a community that takes care of its own after Antonio Basco, husband of one of the shooting victims, had his car stolen.
. People flew in from all over the country. A line snaked from the church out onto the sidewalk outside as people waited to wrap Basco in hugs, to donate flowers, and to remember a woman they had never met — as well as 21 other victims of gun violence.Soon after his wife’s funeral, his beloved Ford Escape was stolen. It used to be his wife’s car, and he lived in it for a week in the Walmart parking lot while he was mourning her.
The story was shared online by Casa Ford Lincoln, El Paso’s local Ford dealership that had already done a lot to help Antonio Basco — while he was living in the car, they serviced it for him, repairing its broken air conditioning and fitting it with a set of new tires. When Casa heard the news about the car being stolen just hours after Basco buried his wife, its owners knew they had to help somehow.
They knew Basco loved that car, but they were lucky — they had a similar blue Ford Escape in stock. So they donated it. “We caught news of his vehicle being totaled and it was a natural extension for the same folks who helped the first time to call and text asking what we could do,” Ronnie Lowenfield, co-owner of Casa Ford Lincoln,
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