HOUSTON A great-grandmother was held at gunpoint when two robbers hit the United Savers Trust CU branch where she has worked for 15 years.
Two robbers had broken into a vacant business next door, knocked a hole into a common wall and crawled into the credit union, according to surveillance video. The assailants waited until she turned off the alarms before ambushing her.
Afterwards, they flipped the light switch. The security video instantly becomes clearer, showing one robber with a Halloween mask holding a gun. He ordered her to open the safe, but she was too nervous, according to police.
After two failed attempts, the gunman tried to reassure her. He told her to “just calm down” and “go slow.”
As she opened the safe, the robbers spotted the security camera. They used a chair as a makeshift ladder to climb up and move it.
During all this, the second man in the Halloween mask got nervous and tried to leave, but the gunman “said something to him in Spanish to make him come back,” according to police.
The men used cable ties bruising her hands. They pushed the great-grandmother onto the floor before leaving the way they came.
A short time later, she called out to her co-workers as they arrived.
The credit union worker has 16 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. She said she will go back to work at the credit union, but not alone.
