12-year-old Rashad Williams passed away after being caught in a rip current in Pensacola, Florida with Braylon Jones. The Georgia boy was visiting the beach for spring break.
GRAPHIC VIDEO: A Florida officer is being hailed a hero after she jumped into a retention pond to rescue a drowning child. Credit: Jacksonville Sheriff's Office12-year-old Rashad Williams was visitingBraylon's mother Addie Jones chaperoned the trip and told"My son said the way it came, it was like a wave, it was something like water, just came pouring like a wave," Jones explained."It stood up and came down on them, and it kind of like flushed them down in the water.
"I'm just speechless. I just couldn't believe all of that was unfolding right before me like that," the mother added. Braylon's mother Addie Jones said the rip current"flushed" the boys into the ocean during the Johnson Beach trip. "[Braylon] said one minute he see everybody trying to fight the water, the current, to stay on top. He said next thing you know he didn't see nobody," the mother explained.
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