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Pam and Randy Fultz were well-known members of their church community and remembered for their volunteer efforts by an associate pastor at City of Destiny Church in Springfield.
A Springfield church congregation continues to grieve after the death earlier this week of Pam Fultz, just over two weeks after an Aug. 6 hit-and-run collision that left her badly injured and killed her husband, Randy.
“It’s a double slug in the gut. I mean, that doesn’t even cover it,” said Deanna Trujillo, associate pastor at City of Destiny Church. “But it’s the only hope we had, was that Pam might survive.”
Randy and Pam Fultz, both 73, had been out on a walk Aug. 6 not far from their home when, according to police, they were both struck, just before 9 p.m., by a white SUV on Sixth Street near the G Street intersection.
The SUV reportedly continued northbound, made a U-turn after striking a vehicle, then again collided with the couple after doubling back.
A suspect in the hit-and-run, Edgar Solorio Lopez, is being held in Lane County Jail on a murder charge in connection with a fatal stabbing on Aug. 7, the day after the hit-and-run. The stabbing is described by Springfield police as a random attack.
“This is the kind of thing that you ask, ‘Why them?’ And we don’t know why,” Trujillo said. “I don’t know if we’ll ever know why.”
The Fultzes joined the church, an Assemblies of God congregation, about 18 months ago but had long been active in various church congregations in Springfield, Trujillo said. She had known them for decades.
“They were the same inside the church, outside the church. You talk to their kids, they were the same inside their house, and that’s beautiful. That’s a beautiful legacy to leave behind,” Trujillo said.
She said the couple, married for nearly 20 years, walked around the neighborhood “almost every night.”
Trujillo and her husband, Dan, senior pastor at the church, lived in the same area for years. Both couples took part in what Trujillo called “prayer walks.”
When she lived in the neighborhood, Trujillo recalled many houses frequently having drug-related activity. During walks, she’d ask for “God to change and to renew and clean it up.”
The neighborhood has since changed for the better, she said. Still, she said, prayer remained part of the Fultzes’ walking routine.
“I knew that they had been prayer-walking because they mentioned that to us,” Trujillo said. “But they had never told us if they specifically were targeting any area or anything like that. I think they just loved their neighborhood. I think they chatted with people as they went by and greeted people.”
Randy Fultz played guitar and would sing during church services, she said. He’d often stop by the church’s building, which also houses food and clothing donation services, just to help out with whatever was needed. He’d been preparing to help paint a mural.
Trujillo said she thinks Pam helped Randy come up with songs. At the church, “she’d help with the hospitality, the coffee area, or set up and take down different things that we were doing.”
Trujillo’s son went to high school with Lopez, the suspect, she said, but in a school the size of Springfield High School, the two had not met. She said she didn’t know of any connection between Lopez and the Fultzes.
The couple’s lives “were stolen,” she said, “not just from this church and the other churches that they still loved and served when they had a chance to. But they were stolen from this entire community.”
