'Gives me a hug': Family friend who got off work early finds missing 3-year-old boy

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'Gives me a hug': Family friend who got off work early finds missing 3-year-old boy
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Fifteen minutes proved to be pivotal after a nearly 15-hour search for a 3-year-old boy who went missing in Oklahoma.

Fifteen minutes proved to be pivotal after a nearly 15-hour search for a 3-year-old boy who went missing Thursday evening in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma.During those 15 hours, 3-year-old Walker was wandering somewhere in the trees near Tribbey. More than 100 first responders were out from 7:30 p.m. on Thursday until Friday morning searching for Walker, but one man who joined in Friday morning became the family's hero.'I got off work early.

'We got a thousand people here that are all scanning out, so I said, 'Well, with the water and rain, I'm just going to search on the outside and start looking for tracks,'' Black said. 'I went down. I started looking for drainages.'And his search didn't take long.'Fifteen minutes,' Black said about the length of his search.In that time, he found Walker walking around.'Cheery as could be,' Black said.

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