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Hundreds pay respects to slain immigrant

On a balmy night just blocks from the street where he was slain one week ago, Marcelo Lucero's life and death illustrated, for a gathering of several hundred in Patchogue, both the unity and division of a community.

The trappings of the viewing and memorial service yesterday in the Congregational Church of Patchogue were familiar: Lucero, dressed in a dark suit, lay with hands folded in a...

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