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   The day’s breads and pastries were baked. It was hot. And she   
   needed to charge her cell phone.   
      
   So Donaji Beltran took a short break from her family-owned   
   bakery in Garden Grove and walked to her parked car, where she   
   would be able to charge her cell phone and enjoy a few minutes   
   of cool air-conditioning.   
      
   The simple decision Wednesday afternoon may have saved her life.   
      
   Shortly after she stepped away from her shop, a man walked into   
   the bakery to rob it: the same man who later would be accused of   
   stabbing to death four people in Garden Grove and Santa Ana.   
      
   “If I had been behind the cash register, he would have killed   
   me,” a shaken Beltran said Thursday.   
      
   When Beltran, 45, first saw the man walk into her family’s M   
   Bakery late Wednesday afternoon, she thought he was a customer.   
      
   “So, I got out of the car to see what I could offer the client.”   
      
   But as she reached the doorway, she saw him behind the counter,   
   attempting to break into the cash register.   
      
   “What are you doing,” she asked him.   
      
   “He said, ‘This place is closed.”   
      
   “What?” she responded.   
      
   Then he lifted his shirt and pointed toward his waistband. She   
   believes she saw a weapon. She doesn’t remember specifically   
   what it was. It happened all too fast.   
      
   That’s when she ran off to a neighboring dentist office,   
   yelling: “My bakery is getting robbed! I’m being robbed!”   
      
   Staff at that office quickly locked the front door and called   
   police. Beltran peeked out through the window. She saw the man   
   carry out her cash register, put it in his older-model Mercedes   
   Benz with tinted windows, and drive off.   
      
   Garden Grove police arrested Zachary Castaneda, 33, for the   
   stabbing spree that left four dead and two wounded. Police   
   officials could not say what motivated Castaneda, a documented   
   gang member with a criminal history, to attack people in what   
   they said appear to be random acts of violence.   
      
   “I’m still in shock,” Beltran said Thursday.  “I couldn’t sleep   
   last night. I have a headache. I’m tired. This has been very   
   traumatic.”   
      
   Ironically, Beltran is not typically alone at the bakery. Her   
   husband’s family has owned M Bakery, also known as Casa   
   Croissant, for some 25 years, and they just opened last month a   
   second one in Orange. Relatives and workers are at the sites   
   from early morning until nighttime baking some 50 different   
   types of breads and pastries. Customers’ favorite: “cuernitos” –   
   or croissants.   
      
   “Twenty-five years and nothing has ever happened,” she said.   
      
   The man who came in to her bakery didn’t just want to steal, she   
   said. “He came to rob and kill,” she said. “This man wanted to   
   kill everyone.”   
      
   Back at her South Orange County home Thursday night, Beltran   
   said she was still feeling a bit scared. But she was also   
   feeling lucky.   
      
   https://www.ocregister.com/2019/08/08/stabbing-spree-in-garden-   
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