Heartbreaking video shows a three-year-old boy walking into a Detroit gas station at 4.30am in his pajamas looking for his mom who left him home alone
- Video shows three-year-old boy walking into gas station alone at 4.30am
- Boy was just wearing his pajamas and temperatures had dipped to 20 degrees
- Police say boy was searching for mother who had stepped out of apartment
- The mother was seen screaming in the street after she realized boy was missing
- Detroit Police reunited the boy with his mom shortly afterward
- Child Protective Services is investigating the incident
Surveillance video emerged on Saturday showing a three-year-old boy wandering around a Detroit gas station by himself in the middle of the night in freezing cold temperatures.
The shocking images show the child filmed by the gas station's closed circuit cameras innocently walking into the convenience store in his pajamas at approximately 4.30am.
The video was captured by the local Detroit TV station WXYZ.
While the footage was released to the public on Saturday, the actual incident took place on Thursday morning, according to WWJ-TV.
The boy wandered into the Citgo gas station on West McNichols Road and Conner Street on Detroit's east side.
Surveillance video emerged on Saturday showing a three-year-old boy wandering around a Detroit gas station (above) by himself in the middle of the night in freezing cold temperatures
The temperature at the time he entered the gas station was hovering near 20 degrees.
'He had on some pajamas, kids character pajamas and his socks,' said officer Tinisha Alexander, who arrived at the station after the clerk working at the convenience store saw the boy and notified police.
'And he had a blanket…He wasn't cold, he just kept saying "I was looking for my mommy".'
The officer then took the boy by the hand and the two walked through the neighborhood nearby.
The shocking images show the child filmed by the gas station's closed circuit cameras innocently walking into the convenience store in his pajamas at approximately 4.30am
While the footage was released for public consumption on Saturday, the actual incident took place on Thursday morning
The boy wandered into the Citgo gas station on West McNichols Road and Conner Street on Detroit's east side
The temperature at the time he entered the gas station was hovering near 20 degrees. The clerk at the convenience store saw the boy and notified the police (above)
A police officer arrived at the scene and took the boy by the hand. The two walked through the neighborhood nearby and found the boy's mother, who was seen on the street screaming. Above is a shot of the boy's apartment
That's when a woman was seen running down the street screaming that she was looking for a missing child.
'She was hysterical and crying and scared but then happy that she seen him in the scout car with us,' said Alexander.
Police said the entire incident was an accident.
The boy's mother had woken up and stepped outside the apartment.
Her son also woke up and started searching for his mom.
'He was just looking for his mother,' said Alexander. 'He woke up and his mother wasn't there so he walked out to try to find her.'
The child kept walking until he reached the gas station.
Child Protective Services is looking into the incident.
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