By Police1 Staff
YUKON, Okla. — It looked like no one was going to show up to 3-year-old Brayden Hubbard’s birthday party, until a local police department got wind of the situation.
According to KFOR, after an anonymous phone call to the Yukon Police Department informed them of the boy’s predicament, they came to the rescue.
"[The call] told us there was this little boy with autism who was going to have a birthday party and asked if we could show up,” Yukon Police Captain Matt Hofer told the publication.
A dozen officers arrived in uniform with their patrol cars to give Brayden a birthday party to remember.
“They have important jobs. It’s scary for them to go to work right now, and just for them to come say hi to Brayden, just to tell him happy birthday, it means a lot,” the boy’s mother, Terra, told KFOR.
Terra said it took a while for him to warm up to the officers, but once he did, he was in the front seat of a police cruiser.
“The really cool thing about this is Brayden probably won’t remember this, but his mom will, and as a parent you want the best for your kids, and especially a parent with special needs,” Hofer said. “We were able to provide that to her. We were able to provide just a moment of normalcy, I guess.”