SOUTH FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Police say a woman abandoned a child at a south Fulton County liquor store.
One customer says she saw the toddler all the way at the end of a parking lot and a woman walking away from him at the other end of an alley.
That customer, who identified herself as Megan, says she tried to honk the horn to stop the woman but she just kept on going.
She says she couldn't believe it Sunday evening when she saw Iyunna Johnson walk away from a toddler, who couldn't keep up behind a liquor store on Londonderry Way in Union City.
“That’s when I proceeded to follow the lady because I was like ‘What's wrong with this lady? You just left this child,'” Megan said.
Megan says customers saw the child and called police. Employee Brianna Harrison says the boy seemed hungry so she took him inside and fed him until police arrived.
“He ate bananas, French fries, a burger. He was hungry,” Harrison said.
But Megan followed Johnson.
Johnson went to a McDonald’s next door and met with a man named Calvin Simon before leaving alone on foot.
“She walked toward the KFC. That's when I found her in the blue truck with an older gentleman,” Megan said.
Megan gave police the tag number for the truck and police took Johnson, and later Simon, into custody. According to the police report, Johnson told officers Simon was her boyfriend and the child was his little brother.
Both told police they were babysitting him when they had a fight and each thought the other had the child. Megan says the story doesn't add up.
“I think this child's life was in danger and they should have been way more responsible than that,” Megan said.
People who found the child say they're glad they were there to keep anything from happening to him. Police charged the couple with reckless conduct.
They said the child wasn't hurt and they returned him to the custody of his legal guardian.