Nancy Resendiz and her fiancé Yimi Nuñez.Photo:Courtesy of Nancy Resendiz
Courtesy of Nancy Resendiz
Nancy Resendiz drove overnight some 600 miles from Kansas for bargain shopping in Houston, Texas, ahead of her wedding day. With her parents and fiancé, the Kansas bride-to-be snatched up invitations and artificial flowers. She even found the perfect dress.
But when Nancy returned to the paid parking lot near Sunny’s Flea Market after a successful day of shopping with her family over Labor Day weekend, her dad’s car was gone — and with it, everything she’d bought for her big day.
“I’d been excited getting ready for the wedding, but then everything turned bad,” Nancy, 41, tells PEOPLE. “In one day everything became a nightmare.”
Also missing from the lot: the parking attendant, Nancy says. “Nobody was there, everybody had disappeared,” she says. “It was very suspicious that everybody was gone.”
Where her father’s black 2021 Camaro ZL1 had been: shattered glass.
Sunny Flea Market.Google Street View
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Nancy said the flea market had not been communicative with her or provided her with surveillance footage of the burglary.
Nancy’s father, Rodrigo Gaytan Resendiz, filed a stolen vehicle report with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, Senior Deputy Thomas Gilliland confirmed, noting that her father did not note property stolen from the vehicle.
The family embarked on a trip to find the car, using a tracking device on her phone, which Nancy said provided a location until about 9 pm. They drove some 100 miles to Davy Crockett National Forest, where they believed the car to be, and contacted law enforcement, Nancy said, but law enforcement was unable to locate the car. Gilliland said the office has no surveillance or suspects.
“I’m not worried about the dress,” Nancy says. “I just want my dad to get his car back.”
After the shock of the theft, Nancy said she considered postponing the wedding, but her parents and fiancé urged her to keep their October date.
“They told me the same thing: We’re okay, no one was hurt– things have to continue, we have to keep going.”
source: people.com
