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 Dad gets donated kidney (Photo: WXIA) 
 
 A picture is worth a thousand words, but for Raleigh Callaway it could possibly save his life. Callaway is a police officer and father of two, who is suffering from stage 5 kidney failure. 
 
 In a desperate attempt to find a donor, Callaway's wife posted a photo of their family, with their young daughters holding a sign reading, "Our daddy needs a kidney!" 
 
 Chris Carroll saw the photo online from his home in Texas and immediately felt moved to help the Callaways and see if he was a match. Turns out, he was a perfect match. 
 
 "I just knew. Even though there were thousands of people who called in. I just had a feeling that was going to happen," says Carroll. 
 
 As Callaway's health began to decline, Carroll pushed to speed up the donation process. Less than 10 weeks after he first saw the family photo, Carroll is donating his kidney to what he once considered a stranger. 
 
 Watch the video above to see Kristi Callaway's emotional "thank you" to Carroll. 
 
 The response to the Callaways' pleas have been so great that Kristi Callaway and Brandy Angel, the photographer who took the family photo, have started a non-profit called Callaway's Angels. If you are interested in donating a kidney or encouraging others to donate, visit their website here. 
 
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 Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1peZnwC ||||| ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta area teenager who said a heart transplant two years ago gave him a second chance at life died this week when he lost control of the car he was driving while fleeing police, according to police records. 
 
 Anthony Tremayne Stokes, 17, died Tuesday when the car he was driving hit a bank sign, a Roswell police officer wrote in an incident report. The officer noticed the black Honda Accord fit the description of a vehicle involved in a home invasion a short time earlier, the report says. The officer tried to pull the car over, but the driver refused to stop, the report said. 
 
 The car had also been reported stolen in a carjacking in nearby Dunwoody earlier Tuesday, the report says. 
 
 In August 2013, local news media quoted Stokes' family as saying that doctors at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston refused to put Stokes on a transplant waiting list because of his troubled past and their belief he wouldn't comply with the strict plan for medication and follow-up treatment. 
 
 Stokes, who was 15 at the time, needed a new heart because he suffered from dilated cardiomyopathy. The news media reports at the time quoted the mother as saying that her son would likely die within six to nine months without a new heart. 
 
 The hospital said in statements at the time that transplant evaluations are an ongoing process and that doctors were working with the family on a care plan. But it quickly reversed course and agreed to put Stokes on the list. He received a heart transplant on Aug. 21, 2013. 
 
 Just over a month later, Stokes told a reporter with WSB-TV in Atlanta that the transplant would help him stay out of trouble. 
 
 "So I can live a second chance. Get a second chance and do things I want to do," Stokes told the television reporter. 
 
 Roswell police said they believe Stokes is the person wearing a mask who forced open the carport door of a home Tuesday afternoon and left once he realized an 81-year-old woman who lived there was home. Police believe he was fleeing that house when the chase began. 
 
 Stokes had also been arrested in January and charged with possession of tools for the commission of a crime and criminal attempt, according to DeKalb County court records. He was released from jail a few weeks later after posting $5,000 bond.
– A Texas man decided to step up and save the life of a total stranger hundreds of miles away after seeing the man's two young daughters plead that "Our Daddy needs a kidney." After Greensboro, Ga., police officer Raleigh Callaway went into stage 5 kidney failure, the 49-year-old's wife put the photo of the girls holding a sign online in a last-ditch effort to find a donor, USA Today reports. After Chris Carroll saw the photo, he was tested, discovered he was a perfect match, and headed to Georgia with his wife. "I just knew. Even though there were thousands of people who called in. I just had a feeling that it was going to happen," says Carroll. "We're supposed to love one another. We're supposed to sacrifice for one another." "It's just so important for me to continue to live, and to take care of my family," says Callaway, who is "thanking God for allowing such a wonderful family to just come into my life." The surgery took place yesterday—less than 10 weeks after Carroll first saw the photo—and both men are recovering in an Atlanta hospital, reports 11 Alive. Callaway's wife says the surgery appears to have been a success and Carroll's kidney is functioning "great" in her husband. (A recent study found the part of the brain that deals with empathy is significantly bigger in people who decide to donate kidneys to strangers.)