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An Atlanta teenager and a beloved basketball coach drowned but managed to save four children stuck in an undercurrent while on a trip to Florida last week.
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Bryce Brooks, 16, jumped into the ocean while with relatives in Pensacola, according to reports.
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Brooks went under the water and Charles Johnson II went to help but also died, Brooks’ stepfather Shivy Brooks said during a press conference streamed by Fox 5 Atlanta.
“The selflessness that it takes for someone to make such a sacrifice, to do so at only the age of 16, we’re so proud as parents how our son has shown up in this moment,” Shivy Brooks said. “Let it be amplified that Atlanta developed kids that would give up their life for others that they didn’t even know.”
“Bryce is a hero,” he added. “He literally saved the lives of four kids at the expense of his own and the world should know.”
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Other adults on the beach were able to retrieve both the teen and adult, and life-saving measures were taken on the beach, Shivy Brooks said, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. The two were airlifted to a hospital where they were pronounced dead.
Bryce died from cardiac arrest, his stepfather said, according to the report.
Johnson had a wife and three children.
No lifeguards were on duty when the incident happened.
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