I was stuck there and ooh, I remember their faces. They threw gasoline into my pickup and I tried to run, but I couldn't get away. Oh, man! Bop! Bop! Bop! Bop! One of these guys picked up a big piece of metal and threw it at my face. After that I only saw very bright lights."
Coralia said she was cowering in their home with the girls, watching the news on TV
"I said, 'Look at this poor man, they're beating him,'" Coralia said. "I didn't know it was Fidel. I couldn't tell it was him."
She heard people gathering on the street outside their house near 84th and Normandie and ordered the girls to turn off the lights, push the furniture against the door and stay quiet. She was terrified and so were the girls, especially 7-year-old Aileen. Suddenly, there was a loud banging at the door.
Should she risk answering it?