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Grieving father to New London Community: Please help send my son’s remains to Peru

May 28, 2021 12:00 am • Last Updated: May 29, 2021 7:03 pm

Billy Portocarrero, a close family friend, hangs balloons Monday, May 24, 2021, at a memorial for Jose Sancho on Pequot Avenue in New London. The 28-year-old man died in a one-car accident on May 21 at the intersection of Pequot and Glenwood avenues. Family members have started a GoFundMe to have his remains returned to his home of Peru with his mother, Raquel Cano. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)
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Day reporter Taylor Hartz tells us how she conducted an interview, through a translator, with the father of 28-year-old Jose Sancho of New London, who died in a car crash on May 21.

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