FORT WORTH, Texas — Residents witnessed what some would call a "miracle" in the streets of Fort Worth Monday evening.
Money was seen flying across the lanes of N. Beach Street, just blocks south of Highway 183. Drivers stopped their vehicles in the middle of the lanes, rushing to catch some of that money as if it had no owner and it suddenly fell from sky.
Surveillance video from one business captured how people got out of their vehicles, picked up the money and left the area. Within minutes, everything was gone.
But where did that money come from?
Well, it belonged to Jesus -- but not the Jesus you're most likely thinking of. It belonged to Jesús Betancourt, a construction worker from the area.
He spoke with WFAA in Spanish.
“Traía ahí un ‘dinerillo’ tenía como unos 2 mil que me habían dado para el trabajo…"
Betancourt told WFAA that his boss gave him about $2,000 to buy material for a current project they are working on just steps away from where the money was found.
He remembered putting the money inside his wallet, but he somehow left it on top of his truck and drove away. By the time he got to the nearest gas station, he realized his wallet was missing.
“Si alguien recogió algo y me los puede regresar…”
Betancourt has only one message for those who picked up the money: He is asking them to please bring it back, knowing that he might never recover the entire amount.
He has hope, he said, that the good people of Fort Worth will bring some of it back.
He has reason to believe they may, too: Already, someone dropped off his actual wallet back off at his house -- with a $100 bill still in it.