support from the community and wants to find a way to give back. i m in this community for 20 years and business for over 20 years. they know that i just came from a life and death situation. the retired marine starts by helping local war veterans, including sergeant eddie ryan who was wounded in the iraq war. sergeant ryan sustained a head injury in battle, and in learning of this, barry fixler donated the profits from his store following valentine s day to the family so they could make some repairs or changes to the house to so they could accommodate their son. sergeant eddie ryan s parents are grateful for the help that fixler has given them. i could never repay this guy for what he s done for us. he doesn t want payment. he just wants to do it for eddie. he says eddie did it for us, and i m doing it for eddie. fixler also writes a book about the robbery and his
as i went around the counter i shot the other fellow who was also armed, in the side of the chest. he goes down and both go down. the fellow i shot at the first time got up and stepped over his so-called partner to race out of the store. the man in black escapes unharmed because he s wearing a bulletproof vest. but the man on the ground is badly wounded. it turns out he isn t wearing one. his partner was shot in the side. his spinal cord severed, but actually makes it to my door and collapses. the man in the black coat, who had just high-tailed it out of the store, jumps into a brown minivan, the get-away car, and screeches out of the parking lot, leaving the second man behind. the clarkstown police department responds within minutes. when detective bill fritz arrives he finds fixler, pistol
but the video helped us tremendously. as for udon, he counts his blessings every day. despite the violent attack, he goes back to work at the convenience store, though his children wish he would quit. come on, please, don t go there. every day, can you quit the job? can you find another job? but udon says he won t leave any time soon. he s grateful to have this job, at least for now. i came back. owner, he trust me. he help me lot of different way. money, financial, and mental support. everything he gave me. being a victim of an armed robbery didn t deter udon from returning to his job and didn t deter store manager karen smith or jewelry store owner barry fixler, either. they all went back to their daily lives, knowing that when they were faced with fear, they
a store owner turns the tables on two armed men when he pulls out a gun to defend himself. probably figured that come into my store and such a nerd, if i pulled a gun, he d probably just faint. february 14th, 2005. it s a few minutes before 9:00 a.m. in bardonia, new york, a town 35 miles north of new york city. barry fixler is about to open his jewelry store for the annual valentine s day rush. gentlemen come in from 9:00 in the morning until about 8:00 at night to pick up a heart real quick, engagement ring real quick either for their girlfriend, fiancee or wife.
so, when two men show up at the door a little early, barry doesn t think twice about letting them into the shop. i open the door and they followed me in the store and went around the counter and one fellow says, i d like to see engagement rings. the man in the black coat stares into the display case and singles one out. a routine fixler has seen thousands of times. figured this is just a normal sale. the other fellow actually joked around and said that, i m trying to talk my buddy out of this. it was sort of a joke. fixler hands the man a diamond ring. he examines the ring closely, as if he s considering buying it. but fixler senses something is off. i see that he was hesitating and the price tag of that ring was $14,000. so i figured to myself, maybe that price is a little too much. as fixler and the man talk, something unexpected happens. what comes in my face is an