ATLANTA — A Virginia family lost a lifetime of memories on the streets of Atlanta Saturday.
The Claar family was in town with their son Trevor, who is recovering at the Shepherd Center after suffering a serious spinal cord injury.%
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"It totally turned our life upside down in a split second,” mother Jessica Claar told Channel 2’s Berndt Petersen.
In June, Trever was injured in a swimming accident. He was brought to the Shepherd Center on July 12.
There have been good days and bad, but last weekend, Trevor’s sister Sandra came into town to help cheer him up. All went well at first.
"It's just very hurtful to imagine that someone would actually steal it,” Claar said.
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While taking Trevor for a walk just outside the center’s gates, Sandra’s professional-grade camera, with 3,000 family photos on it, was lost.%
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"Those pictures are very personal. They're family pictures,” Claar said.
They feared the pictures were gone forever, along with Sandra’s driver’s license and credit cards.
But late Monday afternoon, 48 hours after the bag disappeared, a good Samaritan brought it back to the hospital.
"There are great people out there. I did have the faith in that. When I got the phone call, and he came directly to the Shepherd Center and delivered the bag, the wallet, every single thing in there. Just a great guy. He said he hoped if something like that happened to him, that someone would do the same thing,” Jessica Claar said.