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Bodycam Shows 5-Year-Old’s Solo Trip to Chick-fil-A and Police Return Home in Jacksonville

The sheriff’s office released the June 24 footage to underscore teaching young children their names, address and a phone number.

A five-year-old Florida boy who had wandered away from his home early in the morning was found “happily enjoying his breakfast” at a nearby Chick-fil-A by officers, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) said.
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Overview

  • William, 5, left his Jacksonville home around 7 a.m., squeezed through a fence and walked to the Chick-fil-A on San Jose Boulevard.
  • Restaurant employees gave him breakfast, stayed with him and called the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
  • Body-worn camera video shows William asking officers if he would be taken to jail as Officers Bryan Kelly and Ryan Perri reassured him.
  • Officers located his gated home with his help, hopped the locked fence when the call box failed and returned him to surprised parents who had been asleep.
  • JSO said the parents are not in trouble, used the case as a safety reminder, and later shared a reunion at the restaurant where William thanked the officers with cookies.