Tuesday, August 27, 2024 -A man drowned trying to save a teenage girl in a lake shortly after his baptism in the same lake.
Lincer Lopez, 21, was at the Boat Dock Park lake in Texas for his
baptism on Saturday, August 24, and stayed with church members afterward, his
family and friends told WFAA.
As the group enjoyed the water, a teen girl with them started drowning
and Lopez attempted to rescue her.
A boater managed to pull the girl out of
the water and revived her through CPR.
Officers with the Waxahachie Police
Department responded to reports of a drowning around 12.45pm and rushed Lopez
to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He was identified by the Tarrant
County Medical Examiner.
Lopez, who "was part of a church
celebration", was the oldest of seven siblings, according to
a GoFundMe page to raise money to transport his body to his hometown
in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
He had been so excited about being baptized
that he was not able to sleep the prior night, according to his uncle.
"He was a hero," Jacob Lopez
told the WFAA in Spanish. "He didn’t think twice about rescuing someone
else. He didn’t think about the risk that he could die. And he did risk his
life to save somebody else’s."
The boater who saved the girl, Jacob Bell,
told the TV station that Lincer’s death was "hard".
"I haven’t really begun to, it hasn’t
sunk in yet," said Bell.
"He had just been baptized and gave
his life to the lord, and our family, we pray for his family, and we pray for
the little girl’s family," he said.
"And he was a strong boy, they
should be very proud of him."
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