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Placeholder while article actions load John Martinez awoke Thursday just before 10 a.m. to a text message from his younger brother: “Pray for tío Joe.” Martinez, a 21-year-old student at Texas State University, said at first that he didn’t think anything was amiss. Of course his uncle needed prayers, he said. Joe Garcia had just …

EL PASO — Just about every morning for the past two weeks, Antonio Basco has risen before dawn to buy as many floral bouquets as he can fit in his car and carried them to a makeshift memorial for the victims of the mass shooting in El Paso. He places the flowers one by one …