A Pennsylvania teenager who was fatally shot this week rescued three children from an icy pond last year.
They also said Alexander was honored a year ago at a Collingdale Borough Council meeting
for rescuing three kids who fell through an icy pond in Collingdale Park. He used a log to bring one girl to safety and dragged a boy from the freezing water. Alexander and a police officer also saved an 11-year-old girl. "They really needed help, so I was like I was going to help them. I wasn’t going to sit there and let them drown like that," AlexanderAt the time of the rescue, he said a girl ran up to him begging for help.
"Yelling dramatically like ‘Can u help me!? My friends are down at the lake are drowning, and they need help!' I’m like ‘oh snap this is real!,'" he said. The police officer who helped during the rescue praised Alexander's actions when they were both recognized by city leaders. "I don’t look at this is anything for me, this is for Anthony Alexander. He was the true hero in the situation," Collingdale Police Officer Patrick Kilroy said.
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