A 17-year-old boy who tried to rescue a mother and her child from drowning on a Miami beach has died, hospital officials and family said Wednesday.
, went into the ocean to save a 25-year-old mother and her 9-year-old son on Monday after they were swept away by strong currents in Virginia Key, a barrier island in Miami. As Christian attempted to save the mom and son, he also got caught in the currents, according to NBC Miami.
The mother and child were able to get out of the water safely, but Christian was pulled out of the water unconscious by two bystanders, the local outlet reported. Paramedics took Christian to the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, where he had been in a coma since Monday afternoon.NBC News reached out to Jackson Memorial on Thursday morning but did not immediately hear back., saying she was proud of her son but deeply heartbroken.
“It’s bittersweet because even though he did a good deed, we lost somebody we cared deeply for,” Christian’s cousin Claudia Escobar told NBC Miami.
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