Beatriz had just returned from cashing her Social Security check at a local bank when there was a knock at the door.
She answered the door to three men, who pushed their way into her home. They stole her phone, $80 cash and all the food in her kitchen, leaving her on the floor with head injuries.
‘Prey on the elderly’
Beatriz doesn’t speak English so had to reach out to her neighbor Diana Munoz, who called the police.
Diana said this was the second time Beatriz had been targeted by criminals and left with nothing, adding, “It’s crazy that people have to prey on the elderly.”
But the story took a different turn when officers responded and saw what had happened to this sweet lady.
One of the responding officers, who has not been named, took Beatriz to a nearby store to buy her more groceries so she’d have food in her fridge.
Beatriz was so moved by his gesture, through her neighbor translating, she thanked him in her native Spanish.
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