Global Courant 2023-04-16 01:56:19
A 12-year-old Georgia boy died Thursday after being caught in a wave last week.
Rashad Williams, 12, visited Johnson Beach in Pensacola, Florida, on April 6 with his friend Braylon Jones, 14, for spring break.
Braylon’s mother Addie Jones accompanied the trip and told FOX 5 Atlanta that the wave “washed” the boys into the water.
“My son said the way it came, it was like a wave, it was like water, it just came flowing like a wave,” Jones explained. “It got up and came down on them, and it looked like they were being washed in the water.”
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Rashad Williams, 12, visited Johnson Beach in Pensacola with his friend Braylon Jones, 14, for spring break. (FOX 5 Atlanta)
“I’m just speechless. I just couldn’t believe this was all happening in front of me like this,” the mother added.
Both boys were rushed to hospital. Braylon survived, but Rashad died after fighting on a ventilator for almost a week for his life.
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Braylon’s mother Addie Jones said the rip current “washed” the boys into the ocean during the trip to Johnson Beach. (Google Maps)
“You know, I feel so bad, because I took him, you know, and he didn’t come back to his mother, like he left,” Jones said.
“(Braylon) said one minute he saw everyone trying to fight the water and the current to stay on top. Next thing you know, he said he didn’t see anyone,” the mother explained.
Bryce Brooks, 16, was an honor student at Maynard H. Jackson High School in Atlanta. Bryce drowned in Florida last week after jumping into the ocean to help four children who were pulled into the sea in an undertow. (Brooks family)
Two teenagers died trying to save the boys. 16-year-old Bryce Brooks and family friend Charles Johnson also became entangled in the rip current and died.
