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Pain of Lucero's death remains in his mother's heart

Quick ReadRosario Lucero said Monday she will always carry the pain of having lost a son but she forgives those involved in his fatal stabbing.

Rosario Lucero visits the site where her son

Photo credit: Newsday / Thomas A. Ferrara | Rosario Lucero visits the site where her son Marcelo Lucero was stabbed to death in Patchogue, Monday, after a guilty verdict was delivered. (April 19, 2010)

"May God forgive them and may my son forgive them."

With those 10 words yesterday, Rosario Lucero expressed her feelings about the 2008 killing of her son Marcelo.

She then started to pray, and was joined by her two other children, Joselo and Isabel, and two family spokesmen, the Rev. Allan Ramirez and Fernando Mateo, on the Patchogue driveway where a band of teenagers had attacked her...

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