By Marlene Lenthang For Dailymail.com
Published: 15:54 GMT, 22 March 2019 | Updated: 19:25 GMT, 22 March 2019
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Good Samaritans have helped raise over $10,000 for an 80-year-old Chicago empanada vendor who sells his treats for just $1 each and was robbed twice in the last two weeks.
Modesto Fuentes, 80, is a hardworking Chicago man who walks six miles around Gage Park three times a week selling his cheap empanadas.
He's trying raising $15,000 to retire in Mexico and to place a new cross over his wife Juana's grave as she passed away several years ago.
Despite his hard efforts, he's been robbed twice over the last two weeks, once terrifyingly at gunpoint where he lost his meager $38 dollar profit made that day.
Widower Modesto Fuentes, 80, is an empanadas vendor in Chicago who was robbed twice over the past two weeks as he sold his treats, including once at gunpoint
The modest man is trying to save up $15,000 to retire in Mexico and to visit his wife Juana's grave
The Chicago man walks six miles around Gage Park three times a week to sell his $1 treats
'They took $40 and four empanadas. I just want to earn an honest
