PITTSBURGH — Authorities are investigating after a single mother living in Pittsburgh’s Knoxville neighborhood left her apartment to go to an appointment and returned home to find that all of her son’s Christmas gifts had been stolen.
Tasha Wade told Channel 11 News that she came home from her dialysis treatment Friday to find a window smashed in.
“I just couldn't believe it,” she said.
Someone had broken through a bedroom window next to her Knox Avenue apartment’s fire escape.
“The first thing I worried about was my son's stuff that I had just gotten him for Christmas,” Wade said.
She said she had to have her leg amputated last year and has been struggling to get healthy. Wade said it has only been a few months since she left the hospital, where she spent last Christmas.
“I've been struggling. I have a bed, but I don't have any furniture. I'm trying to take steps to build myself up to the old Tasha that I was,” she said.
Wade said she isn’t working because she’s on disability and now realizes she’s not going to be able to replace the hundreds of dollars in video games and clothes that she bought for her son.
“I still promised him he was going to have a good Christmas. I don't know what to tell him. I don't know what to tell him,” she said.
Police confirmed that they are investigating the burglary.
Wade told Channel 11 News that she thinks someone who is aware of her schedule may have broken in, knowing that she goes to dialysis three times a week.
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