RAEFORD, N.C. (WBTW) — A 28-year-old man drowned in a North Carolina river in April after saving the life of a little girl he had just met that day.
Brian Snowden, or as his family called him, Devilante, said he was loving and cared so much about people that he lost his life saving a 7-year-old girl whose name he didn’t even know.
He lost his life at Drowning Creek on the Lumber River in North Carolina. His family said he had never been there, so he and his wife, along with other friends, decided to go.
Snowden, who disappeared in the Lumber River near Wagram, was found on April 25, just a day after his disappearance.
Just minutes after arriving and enjoying some time in the water, the 7-year-old child slipped off the shoulders of another adult. Snowden, not thinking about his own life, saved the little girl and his wife, who jumped in to help.
“He didn’t even know her name or her age,” Snowden’s wife, Delilah, said. “He just knew she needed help and he did just that. Without a second thought, without a ‘What would happen to me?’ It was a little girl in trouble, and he knew somebody had to help her.”
His brother-in-law, Devonte Wilson, told News13 that some parts of the creek are nearly 20 feet deep.
“The one thing that we are dealing with is that we don’t understand, for you to have a heroic action, but then this isn’t celebratory,” Wilson said. “It’s hard to put a celebratory feel on it when you’ve lost someone behind that heroic action. It doesn’t seem real.”
Snowden’s mother-in-law, Elana Bullard, said he loved kids, so it did not surprise her to hear that he died saving a child.
“He loved kids. He didn’t know this child, he had just met her that same day. He didn’t know anything about this child,” she said. “He just saw a child in trouble, so it did not surprise me. He reacted in the manner in which I know he would.”
Source: Fox 8 News Channel
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