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Homicide victim 'had a huge heart'

PORTALES -- Autumn Duran remembers James Roper as a free-spirit, wandering the streets of Portales, making people laugh.

She called him "the statue."

"We saw him around a lot," she said. "He would stand at Allsup's and not really move, just move his...