Florida
16-year-old dies rescuing kids stuck in undercurrent in Florida
An Atlanta teen and older household buddy each drowned after the 16-year-old selflessly jumped into motion to rescue 4 youthful kids caught in an undercurrent whereas on a visit to Florida final week.
Bryce Brooks was with relations in Pensacola for spring break when his life was lower quick after he dove into the ocean to assist 4 children stranded within the ocean, his grieving household mentioned Monday.
Through the heroic rescue, Brooks went underneath and household buddy Charles Johnson II went to assist the excessive schooler. However Johnson additionally died, Brooks’ stepfather Shivy Brooks mentioned throughout a press convention streamed by Fox 5 Atlanta.
“The selflessness that it takes for somebody to make such a sacrifice, to take action at solely the age of 16, we’re so proud as mother and father how our son has proven up on this second,” Shivy Brooks mentioned… “Let or not it’s amplified that Atlanta developed children that may hand over their life for others that they didn’t even know.”
“Bryce is a hero,” he added. “He actually saved the lives of 4 children on the expense of his personal and the world ought to know.”
Different adults on the seashore have been capable of retrieve each teen and grownup, and life-saving measures have been taken on the seashore, Shivy Brooks mentioned, the Atlanta Journal-Structure reported. The 2 have been additionally airlifted to a hospital the place they have been pronounced useless.
Bryce died from cardiac arrest, his stepfather mentioned, in keeping with the newspaper.
The younger man leaves behind his mother and father and a youthful brother.
Johnson leaves behind three sons and a spouse, the Brooks household mentioned.
The incident occurred in part of the Perdido Key the place no lifeguards have been stationed, WEAR reported.
“What I would like the world to find out about our son and Uncle Chuck is that one factor is for positive is that they beloved one another,” mom Crystal Brooks mentioned.