Shattered Hopes and Dreams

The life of native Long Island New Yorker Tommy Urbanski was forever tragically altered when he was shot and paralyzed on the morning of February 19th. Tommy, a morning shift manager at the Minxx nightclub in Las Vegas, was shot multiple times outside the main entrance of the club just as he was about to begin his early AM shift. Tommy was rushed to University Medical Center's trauma unit in critical condition with multiple gunshot wounds to his chest, left hand and arm. The bullet to his chest caused significant internal injuries before ultimately lodging in and severing his spinal cord, leaving Tommy paralyzed from the waist down and clinging for life on a ventilator.

Eyewitnesses allege the shooter was a patron of the Minxx club that evening, seen entering the club and partying side-by-side with NFL Tennessee Titans football star Adam 'Packman' Jones. Club video surveillance also corroborates eyewitness accounts. The shooting occurred after Jones was restrained and ejected by club security for repeatedly and viciously assaulting a woman inside the club. Just prior to being ejected from the club, along with the rest of Jones's entourage, eyewitnesses allege that Jones made direct death threats to club security personnel who had restrained him, stating they would be dead before the night was over. Within minutes of Jones's death threat, the bouncer who had restrained Jones, along with Tommy and another female patron, were shot multiple times just outside the clubs front entrance; Tommy sustaining the most serious injuries. The shooter is currently still at large. In spite of numerous eyewitness accounts to the contrary, Jones claims to have no knowledge of the shooters identity or his whereabouts. Jones is also scheduled to appear in a Georgia court to answer subpoenas for felony and misdemeanor obstruction of justice charges for yet another unrelated incident that occurred in February 2006.

A real estate agent by day, Tommy had only recently landed a part-time management position at the Minxx nightclub to help pay for his wife's law school education, during the slower winter real estate season. By all accounts Tommy and his wife Kathy were living the American dream up until the day of the shooting. Tommy and Kathy pulled up stakes and moved out West to Las Vegas in 1998, with nothing more than a thousands dollars in their pockets, a beat up clunker of a car and their dream for a better life together. Shortly after arriving in Vegas Kathy landed a job as a schoolteacher, and Tommy as a doorman at an upscale nightclub. They worked hard as a family, purchasing their first home only several years after arriving in Vegas. A couple of years later Tommy and Kathy sold their first home after the Vegas housing boom, which lead way to the purchase of their second dream home. Tommy and Kathy's dream life however has since been shattered since the morning of the shooting. The only dream they share now is for Tommy to live and to someday walk again through some modern medical miracle. All they have now is hope. The challenges Tommy and Kathy face together are numerous and great, least not the devastating financial impact on Tommy and Kathy looking ahead. Friends and family have established the 'Tommy Urbanski Fund' to assist Tommy and Kathy rebuild their shattered life.

Please mail donations to the address below; personal check, bank check and money orders accepted. Please make your donation payable to the 'Tommy Urbanski Fund'. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.