The murder of a road-tripping British tourist named Thomas Reeve in an Amarillo bar last fall shattered his close-knit family and left his infant daughter without a father. Now, his parents’ efforts to claim financial assistance from the state’s Crime Victims’ Compensation Fund have been rebuffed — because their son was not a United States resident. 

“We have had nothing but genuine sympathy and understanding from everyone we have dealt with in Amarillo and Texas,” says Maggie Reeve, the victim’s mother. “But — and it is a huge but — despite the fact that my son was doing absolutely nothing wrong ...

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