A 25-year-old Smyrna man drowned Sunday after trying to help a child he thought was in distress.
Cobb County police found the body of Omar Fraire underwater in the Chattahoochee River Sunday evening. Fraire went into the water to help a child he believed was underwater and needed help, according to a press release from the police department.
When Fraire did not resurface, someone in the group called for emergency assistance.
There was a boy in the group Fraire was with, and the boy was in the water, but not in distress, Cobb police spokesman Mike Bowman told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in a phone interview. The child was able to get out of the water on his own .
“We located the child and for precautionary reasons he was transported to a local hospital where he was treated and released,” Bowman said.
Fraire was transported to Emory Adventist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the release.
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