FT. WAYNE, Ind. -- A photo of an Indiana teenager helping a grandmother down an escalator is taking the internet by storm.
Leslie Kerr posted the photo to her Facebook page on August 26. Since then, it’s had over 1,500 shares and the story has been picked up by several news outlets.
Kerr’s post says she was shopping in Ft. Wayne with her grandmother and two little children. She was carrying all of the bags and holding her girls’ hand when she went down the escalator and didn’t notice until she got off of it that her grandmother was too scared to get on.
“I felt horrible,” Kerry wrote, “as I watched her try again and again to get her footing right.”
Kerry wrote that she watched as several people just pushed by her grandmother, who was obviously too scared to get onto the escalator, some of them even asking her to step to the side.
“… until this amazing man saw her.” she wrote. Kerry praised the young stranger saying “Not only was he not ashamed to help her, but he held her hand the entire way down and helped her off.”
Kerr ended her post with a huge thank you to the young man.
After the photo went viral, some people recognized the man and identified him as Alujwyon Williams, 19.
Williams later commented on the post, “I didn’t think me being myself would get so much recognition. Thank you all for that and it really was my pleasure. I’m happy to be a part of a touching story.”
