A U.S. Army Reserve member recently drowned while trying to save his 6-year-old soon-to-be stepdaughter from drowning.
Brandyn Mitchell, 25, was helping Keira get back on her floating device in a 6-foot deep Isle du Bois beach in Texas. When he told her to hold on, he slipped and drowned, his fiancée Angelia Herrera said, according to Fox News.
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Mitchell’s body was pulled from Lake Ray Roberts around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday by rescuers with the Lewisville Fire Department’s dive team.
“He wanted to be a hero, not just once but every chance he could. Shortly put, he was an amazing man and I am lucky to have known him,” Herrera said.
His mother, Stacey Thompson, said Mitchell “could swim like a fish,” which is why she “can’t understand” how he drowned.
Mitchell was planning on enrolling in college and becoming a firefighter.
He served in the Tennessee Army National Guard for six years after high school.
Mitchell has three children.
The mother of two of his children, Asia Platt, said: “You went out a hero, saving the life of someone you cared about. That is the greatest gift one could receive.”
