Teen drowns trying to rescue brother from Sacramento River

A California teen is being remembered as a hero after he drowned while trying to rescue his younger brother..

Amari went into the water to help his 13-year-old brother, Elijah, who was struggling after a football, the boys’ mother Yolanda Sashe told the outlet.“It turned really bad very fast,” she recalled. “It was straight thrashing you back and forth back and forth. “You cannot fight. You can’t go against the current…it drags you down.”

“I looked down at him and I looked up and I felt his hands drop,” the grieving mother added of the moment she lost her older son.“Something came and pulled him away from me and he was gone.”“My son died a hero I’m so proud of what he did,” the teen’s father, James Sashe, wrote on the family’s GoFundMe page on Monday.He added that the family had recently moved to California to be near family.confirmed his death in a statement on FacebookCapt.

“You could be walking out and it could be just up to your knees — water level-wise — and you could just fall right in after that.”CBS 13So far, the GoFundMe for funeral and burial costs has raised about $15,000 of its $50,000 goal.

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