Otilio Munoz is well known as a teacher and union leader in Orange Walk. But on Friday night at around 7:30, he became just another victim of crime. Munoz and his wife Alma were getting home, not knowing that two robbers were waylaying them. Munoz told Orange Walk's CTV-3 that they caught him off guard and he has his neighbors to thank for not coming to serious harm.
Otilio Munoz - President, Orange Walk BNTU
"When arriving at my home, exiting our vehicle, we were shocked to see two persons there with masks and a gun pointing at me and telling me not to move or else they will shoot me. At that point in time I realized I was being assaulted, I panicked as usual - everybody would panic and I decided to run instead of freezing and I ran and the same time my wife ran on the other side because she exited through the other door of the vehicle. When she realized that there were two men trying to assault me then she cried out for help and the neighbors heard her and they acted fast and they came out. When I intended to run, I dropped because it was so slippery because it had been raining and when I fell that is when two of them came on top of me and I got hurt on my hand so I couldn't move. One of them pointed the gun at me and then the other one stole the chain on my neck and they just ran away. Thank God that I have my life, that is the most important thing - material things you can get it back but your life is precious."
CTV-3 reports that the criminals were about to burglarize the family's home on Goff Key Street when the couple happened upon a burglary in process.
No one has been arrested.
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