A helpful teenager is now being remembered as a hero after she drowned during a selfless rescue mission. The 18-year-old swimmer witnessed several children struggling in the rough waters of a Minnesota lake and rushed to their aid but tragically paid with her own life.
A group of children was enjoying an afternoon swim on Aug. 17 in a river near a dam on Clearwater Lake in Leonard, northern Minnesota, when they ran into trouble. “[S]ome of them were caught up in the turbulent water that was coming over the dam,” Clearwater County Sheriff’s Office explained in a Facebook post.
