Alex Harris, 18, was pulled from the Missouri River the day after he saved his younger brother from a swift current.
The family of Alex Harris said the 18-year-old drowned after saving his younger brother from a current in a river.Alex Harris will be remembered as a hero after he drowned in a river moments after saving his 4-year-old brother, Asher.
On the afternoon of July 23, the family said Asher and his 6-year-old sister, Haisley, had been standing in the shallow portion of the water along with Alex. "The sand sunk from below Asher and [he] was pulled into a current," their mother, Nikki, told FOX Television Stations. "Alex grabbed Asher to keep him." The teen tried to swim to keep himself and his brother from going underwater. Nikki said that allowed her time to go and grab Asher.
"Alex never resurfaced," she said. "We circled the river and yelled for Alex for another five minutes before we docked back on the sand bar and called 911, hoping that we would see Alex reappear and get CPR started."said Alex’s body was recovered from the river the next day.
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