Hours after the man accused of killing her son was charged with first-degree murder, Blanca Palomino led a small chorus of singers at the make-shift memorial where he was struck by the alleged drunken driver.
The mother of three, huddled with a group of women on East Colfax Avenue in Aurora, fought back tears and sang a song in Spanish about how nothing was eternal. Her voice quivered when it reached a particular line that reminded her of her son Juan Carlos Dominguez-Palomino: “You will suffer. You will cry until you get used to the loss, then you will resign yourself when you no longer see me again.”