Police in Jacksonville, Florida, turned up at a family's door earlier this summer to break some unexpected news: their 5-year-old had wandered off to Chick-fil-A by himself.
Chick-fil-A employees at a restaurant on San Jose Boulevard in Jacksonville called police after finding the boy, 5-year-old William, around 7 a.m. on June 24, according to a Sept. 3 news release from the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (JSO).
"You get that knot in your stomach because you know somebody else who's a parent is missing their child," Ryan Perri, a police officer with JSO District 3 who responded to the call, said in a video shared by the department.
After traversing nearby neighborhoods with William in their patrol car, officers found the boy's home and awoke his parents to the news.
"You could just see the look on his face. It would be for any parent, including myself, it's disbelief," Perri said.
