A witness sitting in a parking lot watched in horror as a small boy climbed out of a parked car and started wandering toward traffic in a busy parking lot. The child had been left alone with his sibling while their mother went shopping. When police arrived to secure the children, the mother returned and immediately became defensive. >> Hello. You called? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Is anyone here? Okay. Okay. Yeah, that's what they were saying. I got another guy coming. He's going to go inside. So I guess somebody else brought the other child inside. >> the woman that drives the white car right here. >> This one? The silver one? Okay. Did you Did you see anybody get out of the car? So you just came out. What did you see? >> No, I was sitting in the car. >> Uh-huh. >> And the little boy he climbed from the front to the back to the back to the front. And then I guess he did maybe open the door. He did something because the alarm started going off in the car. And I guess that made him nervous so then he got out. >> So the the one in here got out? >> Mhm. The little boy >> Okay. >> got out and then I was like, "Oh man, I hope his mom sees him." And then when I looked in there I didn't see any adult. And I stepped out and I was like, "Hey, come back." Because he started walking out toward the street. >> Yeah. >> I didn't want him to get hit. And then that's when this lady over here she had just pulled up. >> Okay. >> And so she was she grabbed his hand and I thought, "Oh okay, well maybe she was watching them from there." And she brought him over to me and I said, "I said, "Oh that's not my son. I don't know whose son that is." >> Yeah. >> I saw him in the car. And then she said, "Okay, well let me take him inside." And I said, "Okay, well." >> Yeah. So how long were you sitting here without anybody in the vehicle? >> No. I mean honestly, I don't know if somebody Like I was nursing my son while my husband was inside. I don't know if like They This car was here but I don't know if like someone was in there and I just missed it >> Yeah. Okay. >> I mean from the time that I looked up until the time the little boy got out, I've been here for almost about 30 minutes. I haven't seen anybody else in the car. >> Okay, so it's been it's been a while. >> a long time. >> Okay. All right. >> And the little girl, she didn't get out when her brother got out too. >> She just stayed in there. Okay. Well, I'm uh we're going to obviously try to figure out whose car it is. Um Yeah, we're Like I said, we got a guy going in there. He We We We get this a lot. So, it's unfortunate. I get it. Well, I appreciate you calling and staying hanging around. So, all right. You guys have a good one. What's up, buddy? Able to find out anything on name or >> No, he doesn't speak. >> No, he um he jumped up and he seen this blonde lady, but she's okay. He was wandering in the parking lot. One lady yelled at the other lady, grabbed the kid. So, she went over there to get him out of the street, and she's taking him to the lady. She's like, "He's not my kid. I just seen him in the road." >> Yeah. >> So, I walked back up there cuz she said that there was a car parked next to her that had like a 6-year-old in the car seat by herself. So, we went out there, the car was locked. >> Oh, the other officer got there with the car, right? >> Oh, there's a car out there? >> Yeah, cuz somebody else called also on that. Before he took off, and so we was already on the way for that one. So. >> So, I don't know. Hi. I think he's a >> What, three? >> 12857. Able to get a name or something? >> three? Are you two or three? >> Oh, he He a four-year-old. >> Yeah, I was saying your back's kind of killing you. So, if you want, just go and open your arm and >> Come on, let's go have a seat, okay? >> And then I'm going to go out there and try to get that vehicle open and get the other child out and go from there. Let me go let her sit down. Her arms are dying. >> Possibly if 57 can't find the mother. >> Can you Hey, can you open up the door? Can you try and open up the door? Can you try and unlock the door? Like, press that button. Yep, there you go. >> You got it? >> Yeah. Hey, sweetie. Hey, where's your mom? Here, you want to come out here with me? How are you? Are you okay? Are you okay? >> He's little. >> He's inside? >> Yeah. >> How long How long you been out here by yourself, sweetie? >> I don't know. Don't >> She's inside? Do you know What's mommy's name? Do you know mommy's name? >> Yeah. >> What's her name? What's her name, sweetie? Here, you want to Here, let's go sit Let's go sit in my car. >> Wait, no. >> You don't want to sit in my car? >> No. >> I know. We're We're trying to find mommy. We don't know where she's at. We're We're trying to find her. Where's your Where's your little brother? Did he go inside? >> Yeah. >> Yeah? Okay. >> I gave it to Sonny. >> Okay. Well, we're trying to find mommy right now, okay? You don't want to sit in my car? >> No. What I want to sit out there. >> You want to go inside with mommy? Is this your Is this your child? Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. >> Where Where have you been? >> In the store. >> In the store? How long have you been in there for? >> I'mma call you back. >> 57128, I'm out with the female. >> Y'all want to take them or something? My husband got a year ago. >> No, I I I I We're not We're not going to take your kids. Here's the thing. >> I'm at my I'm at I'm at my wits' I I can't like so. >> We're We're not going to take your kids. I get your >> I've been trying to get my mom to And now that No, the police got my kids. I guess they had woke up up in the car. >> You are a mommy? >> Yeah, I'm at Oak Island at Walmart. I told them if he going to take them, take them. I'm tired. Their daddy got killed last year. I'm doing the best I can. So >> Are you guys inside? >> Yeah. Yeah, can you Oak Island? >> You're not inside looking for I heard the call. >> Yeah, I'm at Walmart. Not Yeah, I don't know. Um my grandma waiting on me, so I don't know. He up in the So what's going to happen? >> What's a what? I'm just showing up, honestly. But uh Do you have any other kids with you? >> I have a son. >> He's inside with some other lady walking in the traffic. >> He walked in the traffic? Yeah, I guess they woke up in >> What uh What's going on? >> So some lady saw two kids. Uh little like a 3-year-old got out, walked in the traffic, walked inside, nobody's around. Uh and she's saying that she was inside and her dad or husband got and she's doing the best she can. >> Is that my mom? >> That's mom? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. How long have you been inside for? >> Probably 10 minutes. >> Okay, cuz we had we had a lady that saw She said somebody Is there somebody else inside with you? >> No. >> Okay, so you're by yourself. So we had some other lady say that she saw nobody in the car for like 30 minutes. >> 30 minutes, okay. >> Okay. So here >> Where's your other child at? I I guess he up in there. >> need to go get him. Yeah. Well, Brad's with him. Brad's with him. So here's the deal. Here Who else takes care of your kids? Just you? >> Okay. I was I was married. All of it All of it me and him. He was my >> Okay. >> It's just me. >> Just Just you? >> It's just me. Nobody else. I called my mom. >> Nobody >> to her. Nobody would help me. So that's why I said if y'all going to take them, I got to go. My grandma is sick. She's actually in the middle of um What's it called when you got cancer and you doing all this and that? I got to go pick Yeah, I got to pick her up. I got a lot. >> All right. What What's your last name? >> It's Lewis. >> Lewis, l e w >> Hold on. >> i s >> I'm tired. I'm exhausted. >> I know. Well, the faster we we have faster we do this, the faster you're going to get go, okay? >> Yeah. >> Lewis, l e w i s >> Yeah. >> First name? >> Destiny, right? >> My name is I'm tired. I'm exhausted. Take me to a hospital. That's what my name is. I'm tired. I'm sorry. I know it's not y'all fault. It's my fault. I'm tired. Like I can't No, I don't Just take me to jail. I don't want to do this. I'm tired. >> I'm not going to take you to jail. >> I'm tired. I don't want to do this. I'm trying my best. >> How do we get that? >> Where do you Where do you live? >> I'm trying to call my mom for the address. I don't know everything for sure. I just got here. Just take them. I don't care. I'm tired. >> Destiny >> I keep I'm been trying to I'm trying to do the best that I can. Like I'm >> that. >> Can you tell me see your car in the parking lot? I want to talk. >> Why do we got to talk in public in front of all these people? >> Because listen Listen, Destiny. You just left your kid in the car in the parking lot. That's what happened, okay? If it wasn't for these kind citizens who witnessed this whole thing and then helped corral your kids and then get us involved, who knows where your son would be? Because you don't know where your son is right now. >> I didn't know where he was. >> You have no idea. >> He right there. >> He was right there when I walked behind you. I was holding him when she walked by me. And that's the lady he when I put >> Remember I think you said something? >> Yeah. He kept looking over there and I said, "No, she's sleeping holding him." She literally Me and you were standing at the service desk. She came up to 91. She was right there. She about to cry. Oh, I didn't mean to hurt >> to [ __ ] I'm sure she's going to be full of tears now. >> Makayla, "I can't hold it's not that lady in the police circle that you were getting mad at." >> Listen. Sit Sit Sit down. >> I really want my mom to answer. She's not answering the phone. >> Can you get a hold of your mom? >> I'm trying. >> Keep trying. >> What's mom's name? >> Hey, but you know how I was just begging you to help me with the kids? We at Walmart in the parking lot with the police, so I'm like I was telling him I'm tired. I'm tired and now they want you to come up here, but I'm tired. I'm tired. I left the kids up in the car to try to run up in Walmart to get a toilet plunger and yeah, that's why I was begging you for help. Like I'm I'm when I say I need help, I need help. And I had to Okay, so you don't give a [ __ ] basically. All right. >> Nope, nope, nope. Let me Let me talk to your mom. >> Hi. >> Destiny? Can you call your mom back? >> Daddy. I miss you. Was you looking for me? You went in the store looking for me? Did you wait up in the car while I was Did I get you a sticker? She got an alpha. >> Who else do you have that can come take the kids? >> No, nobody. It's just me. Their daddy got killed. It was just me and him. Nobody. That's why I'm begging her like I really I need help. >> Give me who's this number. >> I don't know. Why do >> that number? >> I don't know. Ask Elsa. Ask Ask him. >> Hello. >> Can you stop calling my phone, please? >> Is it >> No, I don't know him. Don't tell I >> Destiny, stop. Give me a second. I'm trying to find somebody to come get these kids. >> up. >> Bethany. >> Give me my >> You're about that close right now to go to jail, okay? >> Give me my phone. >> You're about that close to going to jail. Now we'll call DCFS and turn them over to them. Is that what you want? >> know who that person is. I'm sorry. >> option. >> Okay, but I don't know who that person is, so don't give no random guy calling my phone my business. I don't know who that is. >> Calling your phone, so. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, try to get a hold of somebody to come up here. >> Okay. >> Otherwise, you're going to jail. Okay? And you still might. Depends if you want somebody to come pick up the kids or you want DCFS to get them. >> call her. Let me text her real quick. I know y'all white and I'm black, but listen, I'm >> You left your kids alone. >> I have I have somebody to >> And one is running around out here in traffic. >> Can you please try to reach my mom? >> Do you have anyone else you want me to call other than your mom? >> That's the only person I Their daddy is dead. I don't have nobody. >> That's rubber Why are you in my They don't have nothing to do with nothing. >> Making sure it wasn't what I looked like, okay? >> A bag of rubber What it look like? Hello, y'all. Call my mama. Yeah, call my Call my grandma Let me see. >> I'm calling your What's grandma's >> Cuz y'all making me Call somebody else over here besides y'all. Call a Walmart worker. Call a random person. Call somebody else over here because I feel uncomfortable. That's all I want. My friend, call her. Yeah. >> You're trying to take the phone. I gave you an opportunity and you obviously couldn't call anybody. Hey, what's the little man's >> y'all Are y'all going to take my kids cuz I'mma kill myself. Like, I can't Like, they daddy already gone. This all I got left. So, if y'all going to take them, I will go. What my Hold on. That's That's not what we trying to do. >> Destiny. >> I will blow my head off in front of everybody. That's all I got left. That's it. >> Here's the thing. >> That's all I got left. >> That's all I got left. >> I understand that. Okay. I'm Stop. >> No, I'm not crazy. No, don't do that. >> Stop. >> No, stop. >> Stop. >> Ow! Stop. Let me go. What the are you doing? >> Stop. >> No, I'm not crazy. >> arrest. >> No. >> I'm telling you. >> arrest. >> Call my mama. >> That's me. You're under arrest. >> I'll call my mom. >> You're under arrest. >> My babies. I have my babies. Y'all, please. >> You're under arrest. Quit resisting. >> Y'all, please. Call my mama. Okay, let me get up. Let me sit in the car. Stop. >> NO, NO. YOU'RE >> STOP. >> NO, NO. >> [screaming] >> STOP. THAT'S ME. THAT'S ME. >> I DIDN'T DO [ __ ] BRO. >> STOP. Come >> Let me go. I didn't do anything. My kids IS IN HERE. THIS [ __ ] IS RECORDING ME. Y'ALL IS DOING the most for nothing. Hurry up. Let me in the damn car. Y'ALL IS EMBARRASSING. GET HOME. >> YOU ARE. >> WHAT'S YOUR NAME? CUZ YOU RACIST. >> You're the one calling ME. >> YOU RACIST. WHY ARE YOU DOING ME? WHAT'S your name? >> Thomas. Put your foot in the car. >> No. Okay, Thomas. >> foot in the car. >> Hold on. Wait. >> You've gone beyond that. You've gone beyond that. >> don't have a criminal record. Listen. Listen. >> foot in the car. >> Listen. >> Put your foot in the car. >> Can you call the um Lift. Call my mama. I've got >> Put your foot in the car. >> please. Hey Felicia, what's your password? You're under arrest. >> NO, I'M NOT. WHAT I DO? >> YES, YOU ARE. >> CAN Y'ALL LET ME OUT? Y'ALL IS HE GOT KILLED IN FRONT OF US. HE GOT KILLED IN FRONT OF US. HE GOT HE GOT KILLED IN FRONT OF US AND YOU DOING ME LIKE THIS. >> COME ON. PUT YOUR FOOT IN THE CAR. >> CALL my mama. >> Put your foot in the car. >> Call my mama. >> Put your foot >> Can you help [laughter] me? >> I will help you. Put your foot IN THE CAR. >> PUT YOUR FOOT IN THE CAR. >> WAY Y'ALL TREATING ME LIKE THIS. >> SHE SITTING THERE SAYING, YOU KNOW, if you take my kids, I'm going to kill myself. And then she starts walking back here like she's going to go grab something out of the truck. I'm going to blow myself up in front of everybody. What's up, buddy? >> Uh you stay in the car, buddy, okay? Can you sit in the car for me? >> car? Can you have a seat, dude? >> You sit in there with your sister. >> Can you have a seat? >> Go and sit in there with your sister, okay? >> Hello. >> She's calmed down. >> Okay, she calmed down. >> She's calmed down. >> I don't know. I some other guy took took her, so I was inside getting the video. >> So, she didn't walk in with the kids? >> Okay, well, who? >> Destiny. >> Are you you related >> Uh-huh. >> Yeah, no, she >> See, I was I was the one on the phone with her when she was talking to >> Okay, yeah. So, she she was in there for She walked in at like 4:37 and didn't come back out until 5:07. So, she was in there for >> Almost an hour. >> 30 30 minutes and this little man, he walked out in the middle of the road, somebody grabbed him, he and she almost hit him. So, it's not, you know, I was trying you know, we were trying to work with her. I was trying to work with her. I I felt sympathy for her with >> Saying her husband died. >> all that. Like, I get it, you know, I I don't get it. I I've never been in that situation, but I'm trying to, you know, sympathize, you know. But, when she starts saying statements like she's saying, >> Now, that's the reason. That dude, I know. >> So, how are you related to her? >> She's my cousin. >> Your cousin. >> Mhm. >> Now, does she live with you? Do they live with you? >> She has her own place. >> Okay. Thank you. I don't know if he said anything, but she was making suicidal statements out here, so she's probably going to go to the hospital. >> telling her >> She's probably going to go to the hospital today. Okay. >> So, y'all going to admit her? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> We're going to have some somebody talk to her. >> needs to She needs to sit down for a minute. She haven't sat down. >> She She was making statements about and doing in front of everybody. So, I know those children Those children need a mother who is good mental health and she needs to get help. So, okay? So, that's she most likely be going to the hospital. All right? >> Okay. >> But, other than that, we got your number, so if something changes, we'll give you a call. >> I'm going to strap them down and get them home so they can get dressed and cleaned up. >> Sounds good. All right, well good luck to you guys. The woman's resistance continued at the station where she claimed medical issues before eventually signing a refusal for treatment with the witness statements and security footage confirming the danger the children were placed in. Police moved forward with prosecution. She was released from custody with citations for endangering the life or health of a child and resisting a peace officer.