'In the face of hate we respond with love.' Antonio Basco, whose wife died in the El Paso Walmart shooting, is gifted a new car after his is vandalized.
For a car dealership that's long called themselves"the nice guys," the Casa Ford Lincoln dealership in El Paso certainly lived up to their nickname this week.
The funeral of Basco's wife, Margie Reckard, gained national attention after it came out that Basco had no remaining family and had invited the public to help put his wife to rest. Thousands answered that call, and droves of people attended the memorial services. In the days after the Aug. 3 shooting, some of Lowenfield's employees visited the makeshift memorial to the victims, where they got to know Basco, and learned that the couple's blue Ford Escape could use some help from a mechanic.That led the employees -- whose uniforms call them"the nice guys" -- to offer some repairs, including replacing the tires, the breaks and the air conditioner.
They weren't the only ones to donate some relief to Basco. An anonymous donor dropped off a power washer and a local company donated a gift certificate for him to pick up a trailer."It was a very emotional moment for me when I got to hug him and he didn't want to let go and neither did I," Lowenfield said."He just kept saying, 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.'"
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