3-Year-Old Toddler Saves Elderly Man Locked in Hot Car

With the rash of stories this summer about children forgotten and left to die in hot cars, it's heartwarming to hear a story that didn't have a tragic ending.

That's what happened last weekend when a three-year-old boy happened upon an elderly man locked in a hot car in Knoxville, Tennessee, according to Local8Now.com. The man, Bob King, became locked in his car in the parking lot of his church Saturday afternoon, when temperatures outside were soaring into the 90s.

Keith William, the 3-year-old boy, was walking past the car when he noticed King, who had been locked in the car for about five minutes.

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"I hollered at him and he just looked at me kind of funny and I said, 'Yeah, I'm locked in here.'" King told Knoxville's WVLT.

William immediately went back inside the church to alert his pastor, Jack Greene, to King's situation. "He kept pulling at my hand and I eventually turned around and looked at him and said, what's going on, and he said, 'locked, locked!'"

Greene opened the car door and King was able to get out to safety.

"I'm very thankful," King said in an interview with WVLT. "I don't know how long it had been, I'd say it probably be another 20 minutes sitting in there if he hadn't notified somebody."

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