BAMBERG, SC (WAGT) — A 6-year-old South Carolina boy is safe and back with his family after sleeping through an ordeal that left his mother terrified.
Jill Goolsby stepped into a Bamberg gas station to pay Sunday, leaving her son Braxxton asleep in the back seat.
Moments later she turned to see the car was gone.
“As quickly as I handed her the money and looked away from my car to hand her the money and looked to see the pump and that’s how quick he had jumped in and left,” Goolsby said.
Security video shows a man walking to her car, jumping in it, and driving away.
Goolsby and the gas station attendant quickly called police.
About an hour later, another 911 call came in.
Trent Kinard: “Someone pulled off the side of the road and left a child in it doors were locked.”
911: “You got the child?”Trent Kinard: “I got him out of the car he’s sitting there. My chest is hurting. Lord have mercy.”
“We were banging on the window hard on the window and just couldn’t get him to wake up,” Trent Kinard said. Kinard said two cyclists called for help after seeing the child in the locked car.
Kinard was eventually was able to jerk the locked car door open. “He was real sweaty. Real hot. I shook him a couple times and he still wouldn’t wake up and then shook him harder and he woke up,” he said. Braxxton was confused and dazed but okay.