Lady Gaga, her dog walker Ryan Fischer and her beloved French bulldogs were in the news this week. Did you not follow the disturbing saga? Here is everything we know.
What happened to Lady Gaga’s dog walker?
A male suspect shot and wounded Lady Gaga’s dog walker, Ryan Fischer, on Wednesday night and stole two of her three French bulldogs, Koji and Gustav, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The third dog, Miss Asia, was not taken. According to police, the theft took place around 9:40 p.m. in Hollywood. The suspect used a semi-automatic pistol and fled the scene with a white four-door Nissan Altima.
A gruesome housekeeping video obtained by TMZ shows a man jumping out of a car and confronting the dog walker, saying, “Give it up.” The men struggle, and a shot can be heard, as can a dog’s screams and the panicked cry of the injured victim. “Help me, I was shot. I was shot,” he shouted as he lay on the ground. “Oh my god.”
KABC quotes a representative for Gaga and says Fischer is being treated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Fischer is in a stable condition, according to a police statement Thursday night in which the two suspects in the robbery are also described between 20 and 25 years old.
Where are the dogs?
The Associated Press now reports that both of Lady Gaga’s dogs were recovered unharmed.
According to Los Angeles police, an unnamed woman – who was not involved in the original theft – brought the dogs to the LAPD’s Olympic Community Police Station. Lady Gaga’s representatives confirmed that they are Gaga’s dogs.
Both Lady Gaga’s dogs were handed over to a local police station, and they were safely reunited with Lady Gaga representatives. https://t.co/c5Z5QMa944
– LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) 27 February 2021
It is unclear how the woman is in possession of the dogs.
Lady Gaga’s response
The singer herself is making a film in Italy (see below for more details), but on Friday she spoke out for the first time in an Instagram post about the attack.
“My beloved dogs Koji and Gustav were taken to Hollywood two nights ago,” Lady Gaga posted, along with a photo of the dogs. “My heart is sick and I pray that my family will be healthy again with an act of kindness.” She offered a $ 500,000 reward for the safe return of the pets.
Gaga praised the injured dog walker, who is recovering in a hospital in Los Angeles, and wrote: ‘I still love you Ryan Fischer, you risked your life to fight for our family. You’re a hero forever. ‘
Why would anyone steal French bulldogs?
In short, it is valuable and popular. Puppies usually sell for between $ 1,500 and $ 3,000, but they can sell for much more. This is not the first time French bulldogs, known as Frenchies, have been stolen. In November, two French bulldogs were stolen from the backyard of a residence in Daly City, just south of San Francisco. And just last month, a woman from San Francisco reported that she had been violently assaulted and that her 6-month-old French bulldog had been stolen.
French bulldogs have large ears, large square heads and compact muscle bodies. The American Kennel Club describes the breed as “one of the world’s most popular puppy breeds, especially among urbanites. The Frenchie is playful, alert, adaptable and completely irresistible.”
Where’s Lady Gaga now?
The artist is currently in Rome filming the new movie Gucci, about the famous fashion-family dynasty. Lady Gaga plays Patrizia Reggiani, Italian soiree and ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, the grandson of Gucci founder Guccio Gucci. Reggiani was executed in 1995 and convicted of the murder of her husband. Maurizio had two daughters at Reggiani, but he left her for another woman. Ridley Scott will direct the film, based on Sara Gay Forden’s book The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamor, and Greed.
Her fans used the singer’s social media accounts to express their sadness over the attack.
“So sorry to read this. I hope your babies are with you again soon,” one fan wrote on an Instagram photo of Gaga and her dogs.
The singer’s father, Joe Germanotta, spoke to the New York Post.
“We’m just sick of it, it’s really awful,” Germanotta said. “It’s like someone took one of your children.”
Who is the injured dog walker?
According to the New York Post, Ryan Fischer, 30, recently moved from New York to Los Angeles. One of his Instagram pages, Valley of the Dogs, contains photos of Gaga’s dogs, as well as many other dogs.
The investigation continues. Detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery Division are seeking the public’s assistance in providing information that would lead to the identification and arrest of suspects with violent street robbery, “the LAPD statement said.