Around 8:30 p.m. last night [Sunday night] a four year old child was found walking alone on a sidewalk near Milwaukee Avenue and 24th Street. A driver spotted the child and stopped to help. The driver then took the child to a nearby fire station because he was concerned for the girl’s safety.

The child was carrying a set of keys and cell phone. Officers were able to contact the child’s grandmother who gave them the child’s address. When police arrived at the home, the child’s father advised he had been drinking alcohol and went to sleep.  He also advised the mother was out of town.

Douglas Pruitt was arrested for abandoning or endangering a child. CPS was contacted.

(Press release from Lubbock Police Department)