LA PORTE, Texas (KTRK) — A 23-year-old girl is describing the moments she jumped into the water to save lots of a 10-year-old boy who was drowning at Sylvan Seashore Thursday evening in La Porte.

Earlier, officers stated the kid was 12.

The kid’s different three siblings, a 7-year-old boy, an 11-year-old boy, and a 13-year-old lady, have been overcome by the water and didn’t survive.

A deputy noticed the lady and tried to assist, however could not save her.

“He was one of many first ones out right here as properly and was capable of dive within the water and assist pull out the younger feminine. He is a father as properly. We’re all devastated. Want we might do extra,” Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez stated.

Veronika Alvarez is the one who saved the 10-year-old. She stated she was sitting on a bench on the seashore, when her canine began barking.

She did not pause to suppose and instantly ran to the rocks.

She says the children have been on one facet, and their dad and mom have been on the opposite facet. The present was robust, and it might have swept them out.

“I noticed the dad and mom have been making an attempt to seize them however then I noticed the mother and pop go beneath. I simply did a bounce within the water… go straight for the boy drowning. I did not comprehend it was tremendous deep the place he was, the place everybody was drowning, so I stored him up however the present stored pulling us each down, so I knew to only hold him up. I did not care if I drowned or not, I simply knew to maintain him up,” Alvarez stated.

Alvarez stated she noticed the mother was drowning as properly and struggled with who to assist first.

“I had the mother drowning as properly. I used to be like, ‘Who to seize?’ I knew the child was the primary duty,” Alvarez instructed ABC13.

She stated she did not understand on the time that a number of kids have been in misery. In any other case, she would have tried to save lots of them, too.

“I believed the opposite fingers I used to be feeling have been the individuals round me. I did not know there have been different youngsters happening. I’d have tried my finest. I came upon on the hospital there have been three different ones and I simply began crying,” Alvarez stated.

Alvarez had bruises from the place the boy was holding on, making an attempt to remain afloat. “He was simply holding on for pricey life. It was simply one thing robust, the rocks have been coming at my legs, which is why I’ve socks,” she stated.

Alvarez, who’s a veterinary assistant, did need to go the hospital. She was handled and launched round 1 a.m. Friday. The boy she saved was handled by EMS on the scene and launched.

She stated she does not contemplate herself a hero.

“I do know a life is a life. It trusted somebody leaping in relatively than everybody simply standing. The officer was there. I used to be yelling, shouting. Nobody was responding, everybody was fast to seize their telephones and I used to be like that is not necessary. What’s necessary are the those that have been drowning,” Alvarez stated.

Investigators say the household had simply moved to the Houston space.

ORIGINAL STORY: Lady saved boy whose three siblings drowned whereas swimming at Sylvan Seashore in La Porte