JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Sometimes it's the little gestures that really make an impact on someone's life.
Braxton Stockton, an employee at Hibbett Sports on Jacksonville's Westside, was working Monday night when the store got a call from a young man asking if they had any shoes for $30.
Stockton said the store was kind of busy at the time so they put the young man on hold.
He hung up, but called back a few times.
Stockton told the young man that they didn't have any shoes in a men's 9.5, but told him to call back in 20 minutes.
That's when Stockton called his mom and asked her to go into his closet and grab two pairs of lightly worn sneakers.
Those sneakers would be given to the young man who called the store.
"... I didn't do it because I have a lot or that I have it to give. I gave from my heart n blessed someone who was less fortunate," Stockton wrote in a Facebook post.
That post has since gone viral, racking up more than 1,000 likes and 100 comments.
"I feel as if this community has its downfall because of things that happen in the past," Stockton said while standing outside of the store Tuesday afternoon. "A lot of people hold grudges because of things that happen in the past."
As Stockton talked with First Coast News reporter Juliette Dryer, a police cruiser - lights flashing - was in the store's parking lot. The business was roped off with police tape.
It was robbed shortly before the news crew arrived.
"This community needs to be uplifted," Stockton said. "I hope this [giving a man shoes] is part of that uplifting."