DECATUR, Ga. — Filmmaker Tyler Perry is donating a new vehicle to a Georgia woman with cerebral palsy after her specially-equipped van was stolen outside Atlanta.
Perry decided to give Alicia Day of Decatur a brand new van after he saw a news report about the theft this week, he told WSB-TV (http://bit.ly/T01DqC ).
Day’s 2000 Chrysler Town and Country van was stolen from her Decatur driveway sometime Sunday night, police said.
Day, who uses a wheelchair, told WSB that she prides herself on being independent and works part-time as a greeter at Home Depot. Her mother relied on the van to take Day to work and to doctor appointments.
“My mouth just dropped to the floor when I heard his voice,” Day recalled about Perry’s telephone call.
Perry, whose films include “Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” ”Why Did I Get Married?” and “Daddy’s Little Girls,” has a studio complex in Atlanta.
— Associated Press
