Sometimes bravery comes from the most unlikely people. In the case of a nine-year-old Indiana boy, that bravery came when he was facing a thief who had eyes for his dad’s truck.
The young man, Larry Larimore, confronted danger head-on after a man climbed into his dad’s car on Christmas Day, WTHR reported.
All of this started at the One Stop Express on the corner of Washington and Jefferson in Kokomo, then ended at the American Tool Rental on South Lafountain Street.
Kevin Cooksey and Kyle Sparling stopped by the One Stop as strangers for different reason, Cooksey needed ibuprofen for his wife and Sparling wanted Doritos. They didn’t know they’d end up leaving together and chasing after someone they say tried to steal both their cars.
“When I saw my truck door open, I was like, ‘oh my God, what am I going to tell my wife?’” Cooksey told WTHR.
The reason he was so scared is that his son Larry was in the car with the engine running.
“I was thinking, I hope my son knew what to do in that situation,” Cooksey said.
And in an unfortunate twist for the would-be car thief, he did.
“I was just sitting, waiting for him (Cooksey) to come out and then I noticed that a guy was trying to get in the car,” Larimore said.
The nine-year-old proceeded to grab his pellet gun from behind the front seat and pointed it at the thief to scare him.
That frightened the suspect enough that he ran out of the truck — and into Sparling’s Chevy Trailblazer.
“I didn’t know what to think, I just kind of ran outside and watched him,” Sparling told WTHR.
But Cooksey was not about to let the thief get away with his crimes.
He told Sparling to get in his truck and go after the man with him.
“I wanted to go catch the guy,” he said. “It’s just one of those instincts to help out somebody else.”
The thief was driving erratically before he crashed the car.
“Right up here by this church, he got up on the sidewalk over here and got back on the road,” Cooksey said. “At this point, we were doing about 70 miles per hour.”
“It was doing donuts, zig zags, almost flipped,” Larimore told WTHR.
Sparling was more concerned about innocent bystanders than he was about his stolen truck.
“I was just glad he didn’t wreck into anybody,” he said. “That was my biggest fear, I think.”
“I thought he was going to come back at me,” Cooksey said. “I thought I was going to have to dodge a moving car with my 9 year old son in the truck.”
But nine-year-old Larimore was not scared. He was happy he could help someone in need.
“I just like helping people because it’s kind and if my grandma was here, she would have me do the same,” he said.
“I posted on Facebook, ‘don’t leave your stuff unlocked and lock your doors and your cars,’” Sparling said.
It is another reason to teach children proper gun handling. Another child that did not have the training Larimore had might have had another, scarier, outcome.
But it would not be surprising if liberals were outraged more at the nine-year-old with the pellet gun than they are at the thief who came close to kidnapping him.
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