I Am Your $600

GoFundMe Page Started for Victims of Lindbergh Armed Robbery

A crowd source funding page on gofundme.com has been created for the owners of the Lindbergh, who have been hit by multiple robberies in the past year; including an armed robbery on March 5th, 2017. On their GoFundMe page, owners, Frances “Fran” and Rob Longman, share their Victim Impact Statement from the court case, which according to them “went quickly”.

One of the only blessings was a speeding sentencing. In a moving account of the last year of their life on the page, Fran refers to herself as the “$600” that the robbers made off with. She reports that along with dealing with two break-ins previous to the armed robbery, she is dealing with some serious health issues. Taken from her Victim Impact Statement, Fran address Justin (Gulbuis), one of the two men charged in the crime, “I have five massive blood clots in my lungs. I was rushed to the city November 1st where I could have passed away at any time. After spending some time in the ICU, the doctor got me stable.”

I have no idea what took place in your mind, but this is what went through my mind on that cold snowy Sunday afternoon.  PLEASE GOD KEEP PATRICK SAFE!! Please don’t let him walk in on this and be shot down. You see Justin, I was not alone that afternoon, my son was with me and I did not know what part of the store he was in or if Joshua, behind you had my son held at gun point or was he going to go in the back and came face to face and kill my son.  Was my son watching from the back? Was he frozen with fear? Was he about to see his mother shot to death?  Where was my son? Was he in the washroom? Was he going to walk out and startle you and you kill the two of us? Was a customer or my husband going to walk in and find us dying or dead in our blood? The fear that you put in me that day was nothing like I had ever felt before and I have faced death and I was fine with dying.

The family, which includes a young son, closed the store and stayed in Edmonton while Fran underwent treatment. Having the store closed took a toll on the family, “a week of hotel rooms and eating out was so hard on us.  With no money coming in my husband had to leave me in the hospital to return home to reopen our store.”

When the store re-opened a bed was put in the back room, so that Fran could rest from time to time. It was while she was in the bed that the second of two separate incidences where a car drove through the store in order to rob it occurred. “On my second day home, at about 2am someone drove a car into our store and cleaned us out, stole everything.  I lay in the bed freezing, covered in blankets as my husband cried over me and said what do we do now? Not able to talk, I whispered I don’t know. We held each other crying, waiting for the cops to come.” Rob was all too familiar with this type of robbery, “this was the second time a car drove into our store and cleaned us out. We have lost so much and are still waiting on our insurance company to help.”

The couple report that their bank accounts have run dry and were still waiting on insurance payments from the first to incidents, when the armed robbery occurred. Still without insurance restitution, the family have opened the store, but it’s not enough to keep them going. On top of that, Fran’s health requires regular trips to Edmonton and surgery in the next few months.

To help the Longman Family, visit their GoFundMe Page, gofundme.com/rob-fran. As of the publication of this article, $2,925 of their $10,000 goal has been reached.