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I am writing today to ask you for help and airtime. My store was broken into at 3:00am Christmas Morning and over 30 firearms (among other things) were stolen in under 60 seconds. They smashed my front door with hammers, sprinted into the store to 2 of our display cases and went to town loading up their bags with everything my team and I have worked so hard to bring into the store. They removed basically all of my valuable inventory and I do not have the means to replace it.... They stole the most valuable thing they possibly could have from me and my family too.... Christmas Morning together as a family......We had to move the store back in June from one side of town to the other (lease agreement had expired) and in doing so, ended up having to close our doors for over 3 months. This took every single penny I had in the bank, both personally and our business account.
I was forced to cut back my staff and sell everything I own to make this move happen. I have had to cut all expenses and minimize overhead just to make this work, unfortunately for me, that included our business insurance!! Here recently, I literally ran out of personal possessions to sell..... About 4 weeks ago, we finally started turning things around. We had managed to renegotiate some contracts with our vendors allowing us to bring in large amounts of inventory, our foot traffic increased to over 30 customers each day and our daily sales average started getting to a point where we were able to start taking applications to bring in more people! Things were going great until last week. Someone stole our new enclosed trailer out from behind the building, full of my personal items being moved from storage......Long story short, we recovered the trailer and only the trailer. Everything else was gone. We probably would have been ok if I was able to keep our insurance up to date but now we are forced to deal with having our doors closed, no inventory, no money to replace the broken door & counters, our customers being left out to dry and the harsh reality that we most likely will never see our inventory again and without it I will have to liquidate whats left to pay off our creditors and close the doors..... I am not really an emotional person but this whole thing has literally broken my heart. I just do not know what to do now....
We have been through so much with this business and I have pulled us out of some pretty sticky situations, but I can not see any way out of this that keeps this company moving forward. I am not asking for any sort of donation or anything like that, I am only asking that you find a small slot of time to put up some images and/or videos with the phone number of The Clarksville Police Department [phone redacted] asking for any information at all. I have our developer adding the videos and still images taken Christmas Morning and putting them on our website, if you are not able to display all of the images for us, will you please direct them to https://www.doubletapstore.com/christmas-robbery to see all of the images we have of these guys taking everything. I pray you are able to make something happen for us, it would mean everything to all of us here.

Organizer and beneficiary

Kenny Robertson
Organizer
Hope Mills, NC
Ron Berger
Beneficiary

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