SEE IT: Mississippi teenager rescues three ladies and police officer after automobile sinks in river

A teenager is incomes excessive reward after leaping right into a river and rescuing three ladies and a police officer.

Corion Evans, 16, jumped into the Pascagoula River in Mississippi final week to assist save three teenage ladies as their automobile sank. Within the course of, he additionally helped a police officer who started to battle through the rescue.

The ladies’ automobile drove off the Interstate 10 boat launch into the river, about 20 ft from shore.

“They drove straight below the water,” Evans instructed WLOX. “Like, solely slightly little bit of the automobile was nonetheless above the water.”

Evans tossed his footwear, shirt, and telephone earlier than leaping in to assist.

“I used to be identical to, ‘I can’t let none of those people die. They should get out the water.’ So I simply began getting them,” Evans added. “I wasn’t even excited about nothing else.”

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Evans’s good friend, Karon Bradley, additionally reportedly helped the ladies attain the highest of their automobile.

Moss Level Police Officer Gary Mercer swam out to assist however started to battle.

“I circled. I see the police officer,” Evans mentioned. “He’s drowning. He’s going underwater, drowning, saying, ‘Assist!’ So I went over there. I went, and I grabbed the police officer, and I’m, like, swimming him again till I really feel myself I can stroll.”

The Moss Level Police Division praised Evans for his heroic efforts in an announcement.

“The police division and I commend Mr. Evans’s bravery and selflessness he displayed by risking his personal security to assist folks in peril,” the assertion mentioned. “If Mr. Evans had not assisted, it may have presumably turned out tragically as an alternative of all occupants rescued safely.”

Evans’s mom additionally expressed pleasure in her son, saying he “wasn’t simply excited about himself. He was making an attempt to actually get all these folks out the water. I’m glad nothing occurred to him whereas he was making an attempt to save lots of different folks’s lives.”

Mercer and the three ladies had been taken to the hospital and are mentioned to be recovering.