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Home Invasion Victims Medical & Future Bills

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My name is Nancy Madurski, I am the mother of the two children and the daughter of John Madurski Jr, who were all gruesomely beaten, almost killed during a home invasion. All the information said is what my dad and my two boys told me. Along with what I know from the investigators. This is NOT speculation.


On January 6th, around 1:00 am, my 80-year-old dad, John Madurski Jr, and my two sons, 14-year-old Xavier Whaley and 16-year-old Trenton Whaley, were victims of a vicious and gruesome home invasion. While my dad was getting ready to go to bed, he heard a vehicle pull up outside. He looked out the window and saw a white SUV with two people, Christopher Jason Taylor and Christopher Donald Upton Jr, getting out of the vehicle. There was a third person in the vehicle, and he stayed in the vehicle while this was all going down. My dad believed it was his grandson (who also has a similar vehicle) and his friend, who were out at the time. It was not his grandson and his friend, but two people he did not know. As he opened the front door, thinking it was just his grandson, which is my other son who was not home at the time. It was not my son, he saw two strangers, one with the shotgun. My dad immediately tried shoving the door closed, but the invaders shoved the barrel of the shotgun into the door, jamming it. They then fired the shotgun, which contained buckshot ammunition, just missing my dad. My dad was then able to get the door closed and bolt lock the door. Just as he was going to defend himself, the two invaders shot the lock and kicked the door in, throwing my dad against a dresser. The invaders immediately beat him on the side of the head with the shotgun, causing him to fall to the ground and start profusely bleeding in the hallway, on the verge of unconsciousness. They told my dad to get up or they would kill him. He tried getting up, and then was immediately hit in the back of the head with the shotgun, busting his head open.


My two sons, asleep at the time, were awakened and viciously beaten and dragged into my dad's room. They were definitely going to kill them and were even laughing and having fun while doing it, from what my sons told me. The invaders held a gun and a knife at my kids and got them on the ground. One of them started kicking my son, Xavier Whaley, in the face while the invader taunted them, laughing and saying, “Oh yeah” with each kick. My other son, Trenton, was told to give them all of the money they had, and he did, because he was told they would kill his grandpa, and then the entire family. My son said they counted down from ten, and if he got to one, he would have killed his grandpa, all while they were holding the barrel to my dad's head. They said both invaders would take turns holding the shotgun and knife. After what they said felt like an eternity of beating and torture, they lined both my dad and my two sons into my dad's room on the bed and continued beating on them. My son said they were going to kill them, like they were going to execute them. They had my son, Trenton, search my dad's room for money. After that, my son, Trenton, was able to get the best of one of the invaders and flee through the door, where he saw the getaway truck waiting. He ran to the neighbor's house for help, and thankfully, they helped him, and then he ran to a friend's house down the road to call me. One of the invaders with the shotgun, Christopher Donald Upton Jr, went after my son who escaped and started calling out for him, “Where are you? Where are you?”. After he couldn't find him, he returned inside and started helping the other invader beat my son and my dad.


The invaders told my dad they were going to kill his grandson repeatedly, shooting my dad's bed they were laid out on, and a bullet grazed my son's foot. They went to shoot my dad in the ankle, but then decided to move the gun down to shoot his foot but missed. They fought and then dragged my dad and son Xavier to the kitchen where they began to fight back, which led to them hitting my dad in the back of the head with the shotgun. My dad got up and tried leaving through the back door but was immediately attacked. My son then started beating on the invader, Christopher Jason Taylor, and began getting the best of him. The other invader, a bigger guy, Christopher Donald Upton Jr, walked away from my dad to help the other invader get control of my son, who was beating the invader. That’s when my dad escaped through the back door and rushed as fast as he could to the neighbors for help. The neighbors, thankfully, let him inside and already had the cops on the way. My son was beaten and about 7 minutes after my dad escaped, the invaders got back into the vehicle and sped off. Our neighbors let my dad know they left, and he then went as fast as he could back to the house. My son was horrifically beaten, and more than terrified when my dad found him. Words cannot describe how scared, unprotected and worried they felt. My dad went looking for my other son who had escaped (My dad had no idea he escaped) but couldn't find him. In my dad's mind and from what he told us, he thought they had killed everyone in the house and kidnapped and killed my son. When police and medical showed up, they were rushed to the hospital while everyone searched for my son Trenton, who was, by a miracle, safe at a friend's house down the road. The two invaders were found by police that were heading to the home invasion call, and got into a pursuit. They are now arrested and in jail with no bond. My son, Xavier, has no memory after my dad escaped, and only gained consciousness after the sheriffs arrived. The invaders stole $690 in cash, almost half of which was my son's Christmas and birthday money he'd have been saving, and the other was my dad's cash for rent, groceries, and general bills. They also stole my son's $150 wallet. I had bought him it for his birthday. The invaders destroyed our house. They knew the layout of our house; they knew where my son's rooms were, they knew where my dad's room was. They knew my dad had grandchildren in the house. They did not take any physical object other than some cash and a wallet. Even after they had all the money, they stayed and beat them all gruesomely. This was by no doubt, 100% premeditated and planned. If my son and dad did not escape, they most definitely would have been killed that night. I believe they had full intentions of killing my family, and I can’t imagine what I would do if I lost them. The kitchen floor was just covered in so much blood. It was just so gruesome, and all for nothing.


This GoFundMe is for the medical bills we have now and will continue to receive for the treatment of my son and dad. We do not know how much all the medical bills will be after it is all said and done. We are so very grateful for anything we receive, no matter how much it is. Both my son and my dad need surgery due to their injuries. My dad's skull around his eye is crushed. My son's teeth are shattered, his nose is broken, along with so many other injuries on them both. Several stitches and staples. My dad lives on a fixed income, and we don't have much, just enough to get by. Why would someone target a family with little money, let alone any family, no matter how much money they may have. We are not rich by any means. We would like to use the money to help pay for damage to our home and to help pay some bills my dad can’t afford to pay anymore as they stole every bit of money for groceries, rent, and other bills. Any money would go strictly to getting my family's lives back together and paying for any expenses we may have, such as legal fees.

Christopher Jason Taylor and Christopher Donald Upton Jr NEED to stay in prison for the rest of their lives for doing this to my family, my kids and my dad. There is not a single question about it, and it should have never happened. Anyone that takes their side is completely delusional.


News article containing information:

Invaders:
  • 19-Year-Old Christopher Jason Taylor
  • 19-Year-Old Christopher Donald Upton Jr.



  • Bullet exit hole from the shotgun.




I would not put their photos up if they did not want me too. They want everyone to see what these people did to them, my family. We need to make sure they get the maximum punishment possible for doing this. This is what those scum did to my family.



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