Antonio Muralles was stepping out of the McDonald's on Bedford Street with a cup of coffee Wednesday evening when he inadvertently bumped into the young teen, spilling coffee on him, police officers said at a news conference Monday. Photo: Lindsay Perry Buy photo Photo: Lindsay Perry Image 1 of / 42 Caption Close Stamford man stabbed to death wanted to return to Guatemala 1 / 42 Back to Gallery 
 
 STAMFORD -- Friends and family remembered Antonio Muralles Thursday as a gentle man who walked everywhere, worked hard and dreamed of returning to his home in Guatemala so he could look after his ailing 92-year-old father. Conklin said that unlike many other criminal cases, the public came forward. "Right after the doctor came down and said it looked like he had a good chance to survive, he coded and his heart stopped," Lt. Diedrich Hohn said. "They did everything they could. After combing through hundreds of hours of video surveillance tape from about 10 camera systems around downtown and Veterans Park, a woman came forward who said she saw the incident. He was so nice to us and he would buy candy for us and he never got married so he always was close to us. Olivia, 39, who speaks little English, said through a friend she was very happy the two suspects were caught. Olivia said Muralles' family is making plans to send her uncle's remains back to Guatemala, where the government has offered to pay for his return home. Friends and family said he was a good person, who dreamed of going back to Guatemala to care for his elderly father. Family members said last week that Muralles was a quiet man who walked downtown to take a bus to work at his job at a coffee factory in Norwalk every day. After the hearing, Ehring said he could not discuss the case because he has not yet read the arrest warrant charging McLamb with murder. "We are going to be looking at all these kids as suspects." But it is with pleasure I am announcing that we made two arrests today in the vicious assault and homicide of Tony Muralles," Fontneau said, before turning to Muralles' niece Rosa Olivia, sitting to the side of the reporters, to express his condolences. The teens are caught up in their little teen dramas and now they carry around knives and they don't know the consequences of what they are getting into," Atterberry said. "There are always homeless people here, and this and that. jnickerson@scni.com; stamfordadvocate.com/policereports 
 
 Singh also said he is worried about the violence downtown.
– A man who moved to the US from Guatemala for a better life 20 years ago was murdered in Stamford, Conn., last week in a shocking, unprovoked attack. Police say warehouse manager Antonio Muralles, 52, was killed after he walked out of a McDonald's last Wednesday evening and bumped into a group of youths who were looking for trouble, the New York Times reports. A police spokesman tells the Times that after one of the group poked Muralles with a stick, he backed up and accidentally spilled his coffee on a 15-year-old boy, who stabbed him to death. "At least 10 people drove by and walked by this thing when it was going on, and we only got one call," the spokesman says. "People just don't pay attention or are afraid to get involved." Medics in an ambulance on its way to another call stopped when they saw Muralles collapsed on the sidewalk, but doctors were unable to save him. A police spokesman tells the Stamford Advocate that people "sickened" by the killing eventually came forward, and two suspects, the 15-year-old and 22-year-old James McLamb, have been charged with murder. McLamb allegedly beat Muralles while the teen stabbed him repeatedly. Muralles had been living with his niece, who told the Advocate last week that her music-loving uncle "was one of those guys that never looked for trouble" and had planned to save a little more money before returning to Guatemala to care for his 92-year-old father. (An Iraqi immigrant in Dallas was recently killed while taking photos of his first-ever snowfall.)