With ABC-13's help, man reunites vet's lost items with family
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- The family of a deceased veteran has reached out to ABC-13 after we showed a picture of their loved one during Eyewitness News at 4pm. That picture, along with discharge papers and an American flag, were found in an old storage unit.
The folks at Renegade Classics Leather are still pretty happy right now. We weren't even off the air one minute after showing that Army veteran's photo before relatives began calling this shop saying they recognized the man.
It was a group of personal items belonging to a deceased Army veteran named J.W. Moore that had a concerned viewer Larry Brown calling Eyewitness News Friday.
Brown told us his friends purchased an abandoned storage unit at auction. In it they found the photo of the deceased veteran, his discharge papers, burial information and other personal items bundled in a case wrapped in an American flag.
Brown worked the phones trying to track down Moore's family hoping to return the items before Memorial Day but had no luck.
Moments after we aired the photo in our newscast, a Houston man called the shop claiming to be Moore's cousin.
"I'm tingling right now just knowing that somebody's going to get this information in a matter of minutes with the help of Channel 13," Brown said.
Brown says that cousin is now coordinating with Moore's living relatives in Nacogdoches to pick up those personal items this Memorial Day weekend.
