Antonio Basco's Ford Escape was stolen after a funeral for his wife, Margie Reckard, in El Paso. The community banded together to find him a new one.
Antonio Basco lived in his blue Ford Escape in the Walmart parking lot for nearly a week after his wife Margie Reckard was among 21 people killed in the store on August 3.
But just hours after Margie's funeral, Basco's SUV was stolen and totaled. The car, which had belonged to his wife, was completely wrecked. Read more: The husband of an El Paso shooting victim says he has no other family, so he's inviting the community to attend his wife's funeral "We had a blue Ford Escape in stock," he told Buzzfeed News."So we donated it to him so that he could have a mode of transportation and still have a connection to his wife."
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