He had a day job in the music industry and dealt party drugs at night. In 2008, when Matt was in his early 20s, his father was diagnosed with cancer three months later, he died. He was the son of a successful medical-malpractice attorney and a homemaker. Like Chauncy, Matt was born and raised in Memphis, albeit in a different milieu. As we unpacked the food into their kitchen, you could see the hope coming back into Chauncy’s eyes. “When we got to his house I was truly humbled. Matt drove Chauncy (and the sacks of groceries) home.
“All the while we talked and he told me how he makes straight A’s in school and is trying to get a job to help his mom pay rent,” Matt posted on Facebook the next day. Matt White bought Chauncy the donuts-and cereal and peanut butter and toothbrushes and frozen vegetables, too. In exchange for buying him this “dinner,” Chauncy told the guy, he’d carry his groceries. Sometime after 9 p.m., Chauncy filled a box with a dozen donuts and approached a tall white man in his 30s.
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