Police have arrested two men who allegedly murdered a man who was acting as a Good Samaritan when he attempted to stop them from stealing his neighbor’s catalytic converter.

The two suspects, Alberto Rabanales and Jose Christian Saravia Sanchez, who were arrested in Los Angeles for the February 25 murder, were in the United States illegally, Fox News reported.

The men have long criminal rap sheets, with Rabanales, a Guatemalan national, having been arrested at least 15 times, mainly on gun charges, grand theft, burglary, and drug charges, police told Fox News.

He has a history of arrests for grand theft, mainly involving the theft of catalytic converters.

He also has multiple DUIs as well as charges for “conspiracy, felon in possession of a gun, possession of burglary tools, possession of meth, possession of stolen property and felony hit-and-run during a police pursuit,” the report said.

His cohort Sanchez has been arrested at least a dozen times, mainly on charges of “grand theft, gun charges, drugs, burglary, kidnapping, possession of meth and possession of burglary tools,” police sources told Fox News.

Susana Sanchez, the sister of the victim Juan Miguel Sanchez, said that her brother would have celebrated his 49^th birthday on April 4.

“You took a big part of our heart,” she said to FOX 11. 

She said that her brother yelled “Hey, hey” to the two men who then shot him in the chest. “Stop what you are doing a life is not worth a piece of metal,” she added.

“He was a big man of faith, never missed mass on Sunday,” she said in the interview. “He volunteered on Sunday mornings at church.”

And because he had his wife quit her job while she underwent chemotherapy he was the sole provider for his family.

“And now he’s gone, leaving my sister-in-law and two sons,” she said.