The community is coming together to try and help a Clark County man fighting a devastating illness whose life savings was stolen from people he thought were close friends.
“I just let them get too close,” is what Johnny Burgess told LEX 18’s Hayley Harmon about the two people he says stole his life savings.
Back in May, Burgess received the life-changing news that he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
“It’s not curable,” he explained. “They got a little medicine that’s supposed to slow it down.”
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The 53-year-old decided to sell everything to pay for his funeral expenses and to take one last dream vacation.
“I sold every tool, every truck. I had a Bobcat. I had a dumptruck,” said Burgess.
After the nearly $30,000 he’d compiled was stolen, he realized the possibility of going on his dream vacation was stolen too.
Burgess said he came home last Thursday to find the money gone. He says only two other people in the world knew about this money and those were two people he’d called “friends” for nearly eight years.
He says they were a young couple who had been his rock following his diagnosis. He believes they unlocked his back door when they came over for a visit and then stole his life savings while he was out.
Burgess says that the couple texted him about 15 times while he was out that day, asking him how long he was going to be and if he needed help.
“Oh Lord. It killed me,” said Burgess. “At first I wanted to get a gun and get revenge. But I got to thinking, I ain’t got much life anyway.”
He says he tried to reach out to the couple, but they have changed their phone numbers and left town.
Burgess filed a report with the Clark County Sheriff’s Office and they’re looking into the case at this time.
There will be a ‘Cruise In & Car Wash Benefit’ to help raise money for Burgess.
It will be on July 16th at the Car Mart on Bypass Road in Winchester from 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
You can get your car washed or enter one it the car show. The entry fee is $20.
The event is sponsored by ‘Remember When Cruizers.’
