After a U-Haul loaded with nearly $40,000 worth of toys was taken from outside of a South Los Angeles home, it appeared that a giveaway slated for late Saturday wouldn’t happen. One Chargers linebacker and the rest of his community had something else to say about that, coming through with hundreds of toys just in the nick of time.
Surveillance footage shows the moments that the truck was taken from outside of Eugene Henley’s Windsor Park home early Saturday morning. They say that all of the gifts originally on the truck were donated or purchased by the Henley family, the Chargers or private parties.
“To think that somebody was stealing a bunch of toys, stealing Christmas, that’s kinda crazy,” Henley, who helps run his family’s nonprofit organization called Developing Options, said.
It was then that they thought their 20-year tradition of gifting the toys to Crenshaw children. would have to come to a disappointing end.