Hundreds come to honor El Paso victim after public invited | World News, The Indian Express

Hundreds come to honor El Paso victim after public invited | World News, The Indian Express

By AP |El Paso, Texas |Published: August 17, 2019 2:08:24 pm

Hundreds come to honor El Paso victim after public invited

The service was moved from a funeral home to La Paz Faith Memorial & Spiritual Center to accommodate the crowd. Vocalists and musicians volunteered to help, including a mariachi band. Condolences and orders for flowers poured in.

Antonio Basco, whose wife Margie Reckard was murdered during a shooting at a Walmart store, is embraced next to her coffin at a visitation service to which he had invited the public in El Paso, Texas, U.S. August 16, 2019. (Photo: REUTERS)

When Jordan Ballard read that one of the victims of the El Paso massacre had few relatives and the public was invited to her funeral, the Los Angeles resident bought a plane ticket and flew to Texas to honor a woman she had never met.