A Georgia man who stopped for a routine oil change at Walmart wound up becoming a hero when he saved a child who was being attacked by a man.
“I heard the kid screaming, ‘Please don’t beat me!’ So that’s when my instinct kicked in,” Kelcey Willis told WGXA.
“So we turned to the corner down there and we seen him getting snatched out the car,” Willis said. “And the man was taking him behind the building.”
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He said it took “way too long” for the two to come back from behind the building, and his instincts led him to investigate further.
“The screaming kept getting louder and louder, and that didn’t sit right with us. My first instinct was to grab my gun and go get that kid out the woods,” Willis said.
He said when he turned the corner, he realized his instincts were right. The man was on top of the child and choking him.
“At that point, I just put my gun up and held him at gunpoint and grabbed the kid,” he said, and he wasn’t alone. Several others joined him in the rescue before police arrived as Willis held the man at gunpoint.
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Willis said if he hadn’t responded, the child may not have been alive.
“He would’ve choked the child cold.”
The Warner Robins Police Department identified a suspect, and while the interaction was originally reported as a kidnapping, reports said the adult and child were related.
The suspect, Haimnarine Doobay, 67, was taken into custody and charged with aggravated assault and cruelty.
The child has been taken to the juvenile center for monitoring and no one else was hurt, according to police.
