Article content

Sara Lewis-Weeks was finishing her lunch in her office, where she is the property manager at a low-income apartment complex in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, when a man walked in with a request last Wednesday.

He wanted her to gather residents so he could distribute early Christmas toys to the children living there.

We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Virginia man gives Christmas toys to children at low-income complex where he once lived Back to video

“I’m checking this guy out and I’m like, ‘Yeah, okay buddy,’ ” Lewis-Weeks said. “I’ve done this for 27 years and I know people don’t always follow through.”

Skeptical, she told him to come back the next day to chat.

He showed up. He told her he had lived there, in the Harris Gardens Apartments in Harrisonburg, when he was younger. He’d gotten into trouble when he was 18 and served time for selling marijuana. When he finished his three-month sentence, he came to live in the complex. It has 200 apartments – half Section 8 government-subsidized housing and half for other low-income individuals.