Fountain Hills neighbor needs help!
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In her own words, this is what happened to our friend and neighbor Julie Fitzsimmons, her fiancé Randy Vogelzang, and their 18 year old daughter on Friday night July 14th, in their own home right here in Fountain Hills. Even if you don't know Julie personally, you might recognize her from our local Basha's, where she is the assistant manager.
From Julie:
I was going to keep this silent, but Randy, Aysha, and I were the victims of a home invasion between Friday night and Saturday morning, Randy has been working on a car for a friend and left the garage door open. He went in the house to wash his hands and the next thing he knew, there was a thug to the side of him with a gun to his head, meanwhile the other one came at me with a gun in my face in our bedroom where I had dozed off on our bed. All I heard was roll over and put your head under the blanket. Randy had no idea there were two, Aysha heard Randy trying to disarm the guy and came out to see what the commotion was, she met my captor with a gun in her face. She being Aysha, told the guy to get away from her and he backed off. The other one quickly pistol whipped Randy in the head and put the gun to Aysha's head, she got down. Meanwhile I was still in the room with no firearm. They brought Randy and Aysha in our room and was asking for our safe and jewelry. We finally gave up the $7,000 we'd been saving for a year because of Randy's heart situation. They tied up Randy, maced him and pistol whipped him one more time. Kicked one of our little dogs in the head, tied us up and put us in the bathtub, thankfully with our dogs and tied the door shut. Took our phones, my purse, money, jewelry and my new volvo. Detectives should have a couple leads to trace them. My point is, we live in one of the safest places in Arizona, but no where is safe anymore. My baby, my daughter didn't get physically hurt thank God, I was slightly injured by the guy that yanked me off the bed and sprained my elbow tying me up. I'm sick, scared, and hardly functioning. This is Randy's face...my husband's poor face!!!
This family really needs our help. Their savings is gone, their rent money stolen, their car damaged. And Randy is waiting for a heart transplant. All funds raised will go directly to Julie and Randy to help cover their expenses. Even a small donation will make a difference. Please share!
From Julie:
I was going to keep this silent, but Randy, Aysha, and I were the victims of a home invasion between Friday night and Saturday morning, Randy has been working on a car for a friend and left the garage door open. He went in the house to wash his hands and the next thing he knew, there was a thug to the side of him with a gun to his head, meanwhile the other one came at me with a gun in my face in our bedroom where I had dozed off on our bed. All I heard was roll over and put your head under the blanket. Randy had no idea there were two, Aysha heard Randy trying to disarm the guy and came out to see what the commotion was, she met my captor with a gun in her face. She being Aysha, told the guy to get away from her and he backed off. The other one quickly pistol whipped Randy in the head and put the gun to Aysha's head, she got down. Meanwhile I was still in the room with no firearm. They brought Randy and Aysha in our room and was asking for our safe and jewelry. We finally gave up the $7,000 we'd been saving for a year because of Randy's heart situation. They tied up Randy, maced him and pistol whipped him one more time. Kicked one of our little dogs in the head, tied us up and put us in the bathtub, thankfully with our dogs and tied the door shut. Took our phones, my purse, money, jewelry and my new volvo. Detectives should have a couple leads to trace them. My point is, we live in one of the safest places in Arizona, but no where is safe anymore. My baby, my daughter didn't get physically hurt thank God, I was slightly injured by the guy that yanked me off the bed and sprained my elbow tying me up. I'm sick, scared, and hardly functioning. This is Randy's face...my husband's poor face!!!
This family really needs our help. Their savings is gone, their rent money stolen, their car damaged. And Randy is waiting for a heart transplant. All funds raised will go directly to Julie and Randy to help cover their expenses. Even a small donation will make a difference. Please share!
Organiser and beneficiary
Diana Fritz
Organiser
Fountain Hills, AZ
Julie Benson
Beneficiary
