"I'm with nothing," Magdaleno Soto Mondragon explained in Spanish.
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A handyman of more than 30 years, Mondragon's livelihood was stolen by robbers who tried to take his life.
He was working a remodeling job near Victory Boulevard and T.C. Jester Drive when the attack occurred. A security camera captured it.
He said he felt the two men who attacked him were suspicious from the jump. They asked him for a cigarette and water before shooting at him.
"I tried to defend myself," he said.
He attempted to wrestle the gun away and was pistol-whipped. He was beaten so badly he was hospitalized.
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Still, it is his livelihood he's most worried about.
The robbers took off with his truck, phone, wallet, and tools.
"Sometimes I went without eating to buy tools because I needed it," he said.
He expects it will take "years" to build back his collection. He estimates $7,000 worth of tools were taken. He said there was $1,000 cash in his wallet because he had recently been paid.
"Without (my tools) I can't work. I'm without anything," he told ABC13.
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