Widower of US 狙撃 犠牲者 招待するs whole town to funeral
Antonio Basco (R) 持つ／拘留するs the cross of his ありふれた-法律 wife Margie Reckard who died in the El Paso 狙撃, as he walks to a 一時しのぎの物，策 記念の after the 狙撃 that left 22 people dead
A large （人が）群がる of 会葬者s was 推定する／予想するd to …に出席する the funeral late Friday of a woman whose death in the El Paso 集まり 狙撃 left her husband with no other family.
Margie Reckard, 63, was one of 22 people killed when a 銃器携帯者／殺しや opened 解雇する／砲火／射撃 at a Walmart in the Texas 国境 town on August 3, leaving her husband of more than two １０年間s, Antonio Basco, all alone.
"She made me the happiest man in the world and the luckiest. There's nobody luckier than me in this whole world," Basco told CNN in an interview that 空気／公表するd Friday.
"I'm looking at the 前線 door just waiting for her to walk in. I've even tried to call her on the phone," Basco said.
Not having any other family, Basco told the Perches Funeral Home, which is arranging his wife's burial, that he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to send out an open invita tion to the whole town to …に出席する her service on Friday night.
Harrison Johnson, the funeral home director, told 国家の Public 無線で通信する that since 地位，任命するing the 招待 on Facebook, the 場所／位置 had been visited more than 11,000 times, with more than 1,000 会葬者s 推定する／予想するd to show up.
He said his funeral home could only 融通する 250 people and was in 会談 with a nearby church to host the event.
A GoFundMe 場所／位置 has also raised more than $25,000 in online 寄付s to help support Basco, who runs a 動きやすい car wash 商売／仕事 in the town on the US-Mexico 国境.
"After I 設立する out about his story, there are so many people in need of help and 慰安 but his story got to me the most, after he told me he was all alone," said the 場所／位置's 組織者 Carlos Armendariz, on the fundraising page.
The 集まり 殺人，大当り was carried out by Patrick Crusius, a 21-year-old white man who drove more than nine hours to El Paso to carry out the attack. After his 逮捕（する）, he told police that he was 的ing "Mexicans."
事前の to the 狙撃, Crusius published a white supremacist manifesto online which 表明するd 恐れるs of a "Hispanic 侵略" of Texas.
Critics of US 大統領 Donald Trump have （刑事）被告 him of stoking such 憎悪.
