A Canadian woman says she was heartbroken when she found out a stranger who stepped forward to pay her $200 grocery bill had died in a car crash just one day after his good deed.
In a post on Facebook, Jamie-Lynne Knighten, who now lives in California, described her encounter with 28-year-old Matthew Jackson.
With a crying baby in her arms and having realized she forgot her debit card at home, Knighten said she tried to use her Canadian credit card instead — but it kept declining.
"I came to realize how much it would mean to him if I humbly accepted."
- Jamie-Lynne Knighten
Jackson, who was behind her in the line, offered to pay her bill several times, she said.
She thanked him and politely declined. But Jackson insisted, saying he would be glad to pay her bill "as long as you promise to do it for someone else."