A Memphis man is being hailed a hero after discovering twin babies left alone in a cold vacant home.
The man’s quick thinking helped save two 9-month-olds from behind a door tied shut with a shoestring.
It was just before 7 p.m. on Feb. 3 when Nicholas Garrett, 33, heard a screaming baby as he was getting out of his vehicle in a Memphis residential neighborhood to drop off a friend.
“I heard a baby hollering, like somebody was whupping a baby,” Garrett said.
Garrett, a father of three, said he started walking toward the sound of the baby’s crying until he neared a vacant home in the neighborhood where he noticed a baby boy standing in the doorway of a home that turned out to have no running water or electricity.
“I saw the baby’s hand come out the door,” Garrett told WHBQ.
“They had the door tied up with a shoestring. I ran up there and got the baby out of the house. He didn’t have on no clothes, but a pamper,” he added.
After picking up the baby, Garrett took to Facebook Live and began asking “whose baby is this?”
In Garrett’s video, he’s seen walking around holding the shirtless baby. He is also heard speaking with a neighbor who revealed the baby has a twin, prompting Garrett to ask where was the other baby. Garrett said the neighbor told him the twins would frequently be left at the home by their parents who also occupied the vacant home. At the time the children were discovered, the parents were not at the home.
Temperatures in Memphis were in the 30s the day the babies were found. Garrett said he felt the baby shivering as he picked him up.
“It’s so cold. That baby was shaking so hard,” Garrett said in his Facebook video.
Minutes later, he called police to help locate the babies’ parents.
As police arrived, Garrett is heard explaining his discovery of the baby but alerting the officers another child could be inside the home. Police later found a second baby wrapped in…
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