An Ohio police officer went out of his way to help a homeless mother and her two children after he saw them sleeping in a jail waiting room.
Deputy Brian Bussell spotted Tierra Gray and her young sons in the lobby of Butler County Jail in Hamilton on Sunday morning.
He had asked if something was wrong and was told that the family had been evicted from their home in Oxford.
Bussell, a 25-year veteran, tried unsuccessfully to get the family into a shelter. So instead, he went out of his way and paid for a hotel room for the family for 10 days – and also took them to Wal-Mart to buy clothes, shoes and food.
Alongside a photo of Deputy Bussell with her children, she wrote: ‘God has blessed us this week and I don’t know what I would have done.
‘This officer, officer Brian Bussell, from Butler County Sheriff’s Department, has truly blessed me and my family.
‘We are homeless and Saturday night we slept inside the Butler County Jail lobby with the clothes we had on out back and nowhere else to go.
‘Officer Holly got us blankets and I watched my kids sleep. When morning came, Officer Brian Bussell brought me and my boys in his office and arranged for us to be placed in a hotel for 10 days and took us out to get all new clothes.’
Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said he is proud of Bussell’s kindness.
He said: ‘This is a true act of kindness. He did not tell anyone at work what he had done but the lady took a picture with him and posted it on Facebook.
‘That’s actually how we found out. It was shared so many times that I got a phone call asking if I knew what a generous gesture my deputy did.
