Neighbor’s TikTok brings avalanche of holiday support for Detroit family

WXYZ DETROIT (CNN) – Just a neighbor. That’s all Donald Wilson was to Colin McConnell when McConnell noticed the dad of three seemed tired and beaten down this fall. They both live in a Detroit duplex. “How’s it going?” McConnell asked Wilson. “He told me that the kids are going to be around a lot more because their mother had passed. And the kids were walking up the stairs at the time, I just saw their little legs and my heart just broke instantly. I wanted to do something more for them. And he said, ‘We don’t really have winter coats.’ I thought he had three daughters because the son was wearing his sister’s clothes – it was because he didn’t even have clothes.” Related Stories With Wilson’s permission, McConnell did what he could. He made an Amazon wish list for the kids and posted it along with their story on TikTok. He said he thought maybe a hundred people would see it. “I posted it, and I woke up the next morning and there were already boxes on my porch. I was like, ‘What?’” McConnell recalled. Hundreds of boxes bought by people across the world are now showing up...