- Antonia Williams and her sisters were at a Walmart in New Orleans when they saw a man get stopped at the exit with steaks he allegedly didn’t pay for
- As they got closer they heard him telling employees that he lost his job and had no way of feeding his family
- The three women decided to pay for the food so the store would let the man go
- One of the sisters captured the sweet gesture on video
A man in New Orleans was caught allegedly stealing steaks from Walmart to feed his family when three strangers stepped in to buy them for him.
Antonia Williams watched an unidentified man get stopped at the Walmart exit holding three packages of steak.
Antonia’s sister Dezel Robinson Bell started recording the situation.
‘I must admit this situation was funny initially,’ Antonia said in the caption of a video she posted on Facebook.
The video shows the man pleading with a Walmart worker.
A Walmart employee stops a man at the exit as he tries to leave with steaks he allegedly didn’t pay for. The employee pats the man’s pockets looking for a wallet and then calls over a coworker. The man explains that he lost his job and has no money to feed his family
Antonia Williams, center left, and Dezel Robinson Bell, far left, walked over to the man as their sister Iviera Williams filmed the incident. They agree to pay for the man’s groceries so he can leave
Antonia said that as she, Dezel, and their sister Iviera got closer they saw that he was crying as he explained that he had lost his job and had no way of feeding his family.
‘As I stood back and watched my sister record what could have been any of us, I felt compelled to do something,’ she wrote on Facebook.
Antonia and Iviera walk up to the man who is standing with two employees and tell them that they will pay for whatever he was attempting to take ‘in hopes Walmart’s personnel would just let him go.’
As they walk to the register the man puts his arm around Antonia and thanks the three women for their help.
Antonia posted the video to her Facebook on October 1, and it had over half a million views as of Wednesday.
Iviera, Dezel and Antonia are pictured from left to right with the unidentified man they helped
The man embraces Antonia to say thank you for the random act of kindness