Posted by bill & kelly
on October 8, 2009, 10:27 pm, in reply to "Re: Boca incident"
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hello everyone,
sorry for taking so long to share our experience of this home invasion but we are still reeling from the horror & shock of it all.
bill says he still feels the gun at the back of his head.
yesterday morning while preparing to leave for the village to help my mom, bill was loading the truck when 2 men with bandanas, masks and guns drawn approached him and fired 1 shot at his feet. they came out of the jungle.
they demanded the keys to our trucks and any cash we had. all this while bill was on his knees execution style with the gun at the back of his head.
after he gave them the keys to both of our trucks, they asked if he was alone, to which he responded yes, hoping they would just take the cash and trucks and go away.
instead they demanded to go inside the house and began to escort him to the front door. our dogs began barking fiercly and the men stopped short of the front doors.
bill knew they stopped and proceeded to enter the house and tried to close front door to prevent them from entering thinking that and the dogs barking might discourage them.
at that point they shot twice through the door, one shot which hit me in the upper left thigh as i was walking towards front door from bedroom.
i had no idea what was going on, i just saw bill
trying to keep the front door closed. it was like in a movie when everything is in slow motion and bizarre.
they broke through the doors, overpowered bill, threw us on the floor inside the entrance to the house and tied bill's hands with duck tape. they demanded to know if we had any guns in the house, they held guns to both of our heads, when i finally stopped screaming and came to that realization that we needed to give them what we could calmly and pray they would leave.
i did not know i had been shot at this point but felt intense pain. they knew and i assume that is why they did not tie me up. i started asking what do you want? money? they said yes. i sat up and went throug bill's pockets and got his wallet and gave them all he had. we think it was 2,000 pesos. i showed them that was all there was.
next question, the truck keys. they didn't even realize they had them already. i took them away and started to pull correct keys off ring, the toyota and then the chevy. next they wanted the the key to our metal gate below which we keep locked at all times. we tried to explain no key, it is combination. they started to go insane threatening with the guns again.
i asked please let me write the combination for you, there is no key. they said ok, but at this point i could not get up by myself. i asked for help and one man tried to help me up and walked to kitchen counter. when we handed other man combo and explained how it worked. we told him to go try it and the other man waited with us.
at this point bill asked me to roll so he could look at my leg and said he thought i was shot. the first man who left to try the gate never came back. the second man finished tieing us up with the phone cords he had cut.
the man stayed behind with us for about 45 minutes waiting for his friend to come back, when he didn't return he finally left with our second truck and told us not to move.
bill immediately freed his hands and i untied his feet, so we could call for help. we had a phone in box for emergencies, figured this qualifed, called my mom and asked her to get our friends and bring police. we had no way to leave and i could not move at this point.
about 25 minutes later, our dear friends from village arrived to help us. next came the police and doctor from the la manzanilla clinic.
they transported me by ambulance to manzanillo, where i had surgery last night to repair the damage.
i am home at my mom's resting comfortably now.
bill & i feel thankful that we are still alive.
we both feel that this happens everywhere in the world. there are good and bad people everywhere.
we have felt nothing but love and kindness from the people of la manzanilla. this village is full of wonderful people with the biggest hearts in the world.
thank you all for your kind thoughts and prayers.
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