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We are hosting a 1st Annual motorcycle ride fundraiser for The Willow Domestic Violence Center and Carissa Schmidt. Carissa Schmidt, got shot on July 17th, 2025 in Lawrence and was the only survivor. They will be splitting the proceeds between The Willow Domestic Violence Center Lawrence, KS and Carissa and her boys. YOU DON’T HAVE TO HAVE A MOTORCYCLE, FOLLOW US IN CAR OR TRUCK OR MEET US AT FIRST OR LAST STOP.We are doing registration in Lawrence, KS., at Wayne and Larry’s Lawrence, KS. Cost is $20 for single riders and couple riders will be $30. The route will be as follows.
1. Wayne and Larry’s at 11:00 for registration and kick stands up at 12:00. - Lawrence, KS.
2. D-Dubs - Eudora, KS.
3. Beer 30 - Desoto, KS.
4. Porchlight Tavern - Linwood, KS.
5. Hilltop - Tonganoxie, KS.
At Hilltop we will be having a silent auction. If you have anything you’d like to donate please let us know. If you’d like to Cash App or Venmo, my Cash App is $jahale2318 and my Venmo is @Jamie-Hale-90.
Carissa shared her story, please read all of it.
So here’s my story: it’s very long. I’m sorry if you don’t wanna read it but alittle bit of a back story before the shooting, from the moment I met Donavon (the shooter ) I loved him but he had a lot of insecurities and trust issues and he never trusted me and he broke up with me a million times in the first 3 months and when we were together and he was always giving me the silent treatment when he was mad at me ( sometimes for 3 days id be ignored) and anytime we got into a argument he went straight to drinking. So fast forward to I think may of 2025 he was drinking for a couple days and he slit his wrist in my kitchen because I wanted to break up with him because I was MISERABLE, so I think June 2025 I went and hung out with Jay(the other dude that got shot) and some of his friends and Donavon kept telling me to come home and I didn’t want to because I was having fun with some friends and he got really mad about it and so I’m assuming that that’s kind of where the anger came from when he decided he wanted to shoot him. But I broke up with him July 14th 2025 I think, and then I told him I wanted it to be done for good. I told him that I didn’t ever see it going anywhere and he kind of lost it and then I came home that night and he hugged me and told me that I wasn’t allowed to break up with him. That night he wrote out 100 reasons why he loved me and one reason why he should leave and for one reason he should leave he wrote “I can’t. “So come July 17, 2025. He was drinking for three days straight prior to this situation and I come home from work. I go shower and get dressed whatever and then I go to my grandma’s house to go pick up my kids and while I’m driving out of my apartment complex, he gets in front of my car and makes a comment of “ you’re going out to be a slut” and I respond with, “I’m actually just going to pick up my kids. “But then while I’m there, Jay and his friend pulled up and they were hanging out with my kids and then Donavon drove by in his work truck and saw that they were there with me and the kids, and he turned around and went back to my apartment and then he texted me telling me how I’m a whore and whatever, told me how he was gonna get me kicked out of my apartment and then told me that he would be out by Sunday ,and then I ask Jay to come with me because I’m scared to go back to my apartment, but I had to get my breast pumps because I was still pumping and then I get here and he asked me where my children are also made the comment of “ I saw your little boyfriend pull up behind you” then he makes a comment again that I’m going out to be a whore and then I walk up to the door and he took off the door handle and he pinned me up on my wall under my TV and was choking me telling me to look at him so I could watch him shoot himself and he kept saying “ this is what you want. This is what you want ?”and then he walked back to my bedroom, where he pistol whipped my TV I think before I got to my apartment and he said he was gonna go shoot himself in my room and splatter it on the wall so I could always think about it so then I proceed to be terrified as one would be and I go outside and he kind of follows me and he point his gun right at my face and at this point, I’m just terrified I’m hysterically crying and then I don’t even remember what was said after that, but I know that he came inside watched me through the window shot a bullet in the ceiling and then he sat inside for a couple of seconds, and then I walked over to Jay’s truck where Jay said well let’s park, I think because he was waiting on a buddy and then I’m crying on Jay’s lap and Donavon walks up to the truck where me and Jay are and he looks in the window and then comes around to jays side and said that they have business to discuss and Jay kind of laughed it off. He really didn’t think that he was being serious, which neither did I then he turned his head and laughed, and he shot him in the head and then I’m in the passenger seat still so my ears are ringing and I look over at Jay terrified so I hopped out of the truck and I start running yelling help he’s gonna K*ll me and then I guess Jay‘s friend pulled up and Donavon was gonna shoot him but he said he had nothing to do with it so he didn’t shoot him and then he started running after me. He shot at me 12 times. I eventually fell after the second shot, and then he came up next to me and shot himself under his chin, I looked over at Donavon and I’m just saying help I’m gonna die and I’m gurgling blood in my mouth thinking that it was the end for me
and in the midst of all of it when the cops were there I couldn’t see anything everything was white. I had to get life flighted and then I get to the hospital which we had a lot of complications I actually had a lacerated lung and liver both grade 3 a collapsed lung on top of like 25 procedures and surgeries blood clots in my chest blood clots in both sides of my throat and two weeks in my lung re collapsed and I died two times and I was on ecmo - life support for like four days, after I left the hospital, I had so much medicine and in the hospital and out of the hospital, I had tubes in my stomach for an infection I got from the bullets grazing , I had two shots in my back that one went through my arm, and one went the the bottom it my boob it’s been six months as of yesterday every day since then has been hard but each day gets a little easier. I am so sorry for Jay’s family and all of the hurt they’ve gone through he will forever be missed, and we will never forget him.🩷🕊️
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