Paul Walker charmed audiences on the big screen, but he was everything a leading man should be off camera as well.

A former Santa Barbara jewelry store clerk has revealed that the Fast and Furious star, who died in a fiery car crash on Saturday, had once anonymously purchased an engagement ring for a struggling couple.

Walker was in the store when he saw a soldier who had just finished up his first tour of duty in Iraq shopping for engagement rings with his fiancee.

“She saw something that she really, really liked, but he said, ‘Honey, I can’t afford that,’” Irene King says.

The actor took it upon himself to purchase the $10,000 engagement set for the couple.

“He called the manager and he said, ‘Umm, the ring that those people are looking at – put it on my tab,’” King says. “Soon after that, he just left.”

Walker also requested that the couple be told it was an anonymous gift, and King and the store’s employees kept the truth hidden for more than ten years. But King says she wanted to share the story of Walker’s generosity since the news of his death.

“To do something like that to a perfect stranger is just unbelievable,” King says.

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