A Rent-A-Center employee in Buffalo, N.Y., is being praised for his quick thinking after his customer’s four-year-old son said his mother “wouldn’t wake up.”
On Dec. 4, Taijuan Littleton, an employee at Rent-A-Center, called a customer to follow up on an order. However, the customer’s four-year-old son, Bryan, answered the phone instead. Littleton said the moment he spoke to the boy he knew something was wrong.
“I asked where his mom was, he said ‘she was asleep.’ I asked ‘can you go wake her up?’ and he said she ‘wouldn’t wake up,’” recalled Taijuan to WGRZ News.
That’s when Littleton handed the phone to his co-worker and rushed over to the customer’s home. Littleton found the woman, who was in her 40s, dead.
Littleton, who is a father of three, wrapped Bryan in a blanket, brought the young boy to his car and waited for police to arrive.
It turns out Bryan had been alone for two days living off milk and maple syrup.
Littleton said Bryan didn’t understand the circumstances surrounding him, but that the boy asked for food when Littleton arrived.
“All I know was the little boy was hungry,” said Littleton.
Toy donations have been pouring in for Bryan, something Nichols is grateful for and hopes will ease the child’s mind for a bit this holiday season.
“Hopefully it takes his mind off of things this Christmas,” Nichols said.
Littleton also expressed his best wishes to the boy.
“All I can do is just pray that the little boy has a good childhood,” Littleton said to WGRZ. “I hope that he grows up to be a Good Samaritan.”
Bryan is currently living at a foster home, but the child’s uncle is planning to have the four-year-old reside with him.
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