The whole world has been dealing with a virus that has affected many and has taken lots of lives in its deadly path. The Corona Virus has forced towns to shut down across the nation and overseas. You would think with what is going on in the world, that it would keep all the crazies in check. Perhaps postpone their bad intentions. In the criminal mind, these trying times are a perfect time to strike. In a New Mexico gas station named Chucky’s, a 22 year old male named Daniel Arroyo Beltran had an interest in some kids that got off the Greyhound bus with their mother. There were three kids all together. Beltran wanted two of the kids and on March 26, 2020 an opportunity presented itself, and he pounced on them like a vulture pecking away at leftover road kill smashed on the highway by a Peterbilt truck. Chaos erupted at the gas station as Beltran made his move for the baby and a three year old. Across the street at another gas station, Beltran did not know that the District wrestling champion from Mayfield High was filling up his gas tank.

Beltran quickly snatched the three year old by his arm and yelled at the mother to hand the baby over. Customers outside raced to rescue the mother and her kids. Beltran quickly disposed of these good samaritans punching a man and woman. Across the street the Wrestler was done at the pump and heard the commotion. The mother quickly took her kids inside Chucky’s gas station. Inside people tried to intervene and put a stop to Beltran’s madness as he made his way inside. It did not work as Beltran went fisticuffs again with another customer. That customer probably gave that mother and her kids enough time to lock themselves in the employee’s room as they hoped and prayed that authorities would be there shortly. Customers tried to throw things at Beltran. Nothing could stop his rampage and pursuit of the mother and kids as he fought off a broom handle at one point and continued on like a Terminator mission to capture John Connor. The episode may have lasted under ten minutes but it seemed like a lifetime for the kids and the mother scared for their lives in a small town called Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Then the doors opened as a hero walked inside the gas station like he has been there before. Canaan Bower a 16 year old wrestler high school student saves the day. Bower grabbed Beltran, brought him down to the ground, and pinned him. I would like to think the clerk gave the “1-2-3 count you’re out” sign. Bower had Beltran pinned until the Police finally arrived on the scene and collected the 22 year old waste of sperm. Canaan Bower had to have ice water in his veins to enter Chucky’s like a first responder and let his instincts take over from the wrestling mat. The way Bower took the scum to the ground using what he learned in the sport of wrestling, instead of trying to punch the guy. Most would have gone for the punch as their anger guides them instead of instinct in a heated moment like that.

Back in high school I had a cup of coffee in the sport of Wrestling. I was a tall skinny kid in the 125 pound weight class. I never wrestled in an actual match because I was overweight. I was 127, they wanted me to lose weight, but I was 6 feet tall. I was skin and bones and needed cheeseburgers to put some meat on my frame instead of calling Jenny Craig. I quit and moved on to other things. In my neighborhood some of these wrestlers that wrestled in high school were just pricks and looking for fights. Who knows what these guys would have done if they entered the store as a group and saw Beltran’s rampage. The great wrestlers that I knew, besides the rotten apples, from back in the days and like Canaan Bower are on another level in life. Like the fire fighters who climbed the stairs in the World Trade Center during 9/11. The front lines of doctors and nurses helping all the victims of the Coronavirus. Canaan Bower is the type of person that will help the nation get through the Coronavirus. Bower has a bright future in his life. I can see this not being his last great headline in life.