A Georgia couple credits a stranger for saving their 4-year-old son's life after he nearly drowned at a Banks County pool.
Asher Dew from Winder says he vaguely remembers what happened while he was at a Memorial Day party at the pool in Homer, Georgia.
The parents say they took the boy's floaties off so he could have dinner and while they were looking away he wandered off to the deep end of the pool.
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"It was the most frightening moment of my life because I literally knew my son was pretty much gone limp, discolored, lips blue," said the boy's father James Dew.
"I was screaming, I thought my baby was gone," mother Courtney Dew said.
A man the parent's didn't know came to the rescue.
"It was amazing how quickly he ran to help Asher," his mother said.
The man, Kevin Parson, performed CPR on the boy. He says it took four or five cycles until all of sudden Asher came back to life.
"Immediately he just called out for me. He said, 'I want my mamma,'" Courtney Dew said.
Asher was airlifted to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston where they monitored his breathing in the ICU.
"I am highly thankful that God put him in that spot at that time. There was a reason -- that reason was to save my son that day," James Dew said.
Parson said he was trained in CPR as a requirement for his job as a construction worker.
"Now I know that if I died tomorrow I would feel like I did something. It was an incredible feeling," Parson said.
The family says they wanted to tell their story because they want to send a strong message to other parents this summer: Never take your eye of your child when they are near the pool.
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