A 15-year-old from Rusk died after trying to rescue a 5-year-old at Lake Jacksonville Saturday. A boater pulled him from the water, but he later died.<\/p>\n
JACKSONVILLE, Texas \u2014 A 15-year-old boy from Rusk died Saturday afternoon after trying to rescue a 5-year-old child at Lake Jacksonville, according to the Jacksonville Police Department.<\/p>\n
Police Chief Steven Markasky said officers were dispatched to the Lake Jacksonville campgrounds around 2:31 p.m. after receiving a 911 call about a possible drowning.<\/p>\n
According to Markasky, the teenager entered the water to retrieve a 5-year-old who was on a float. The teen then went into deeper water, and cried out for help.<\/p>\n
A boater pulled the teen from the water and attempted to save his life before first responders arrived. The teen was taken to UT Health Jacksonville, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
Markasky thanked the boater for acting quickly and attempting to save the teenager’s life. The 5-year-old child was not injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The victim’s identity has not been released. The Jacksonville Police Department is investigating the drowning.<\/p>\n
CBS19 will update this story as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old from Rusk died after trying to rescue a 5-year-old at Lake Jacksonville Saturday. A boater pulled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-353302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}