Teenager Passerby Sees Father Fishing With Son At Lake - Moments Later She Witnesses Him Jump In

Jan 08, 2019 by apost team

The bonds between fathers and sons are some of the strongest emotional and intellectual connections people can have.

Because most father-son pairs are so close, their constituents would often literally take a speeding bullet for their counterparts. This rings true especially as far as dads are concerned, as nearly all of them are ready to sacrifice their own lives for their sons' survival. You won't believe what this father did to keep his six-year-old son out of harm's way - any ideas?

16-year-old Riley Gomez is a lifelong resident of Moline, Illinois. One evening, he set out to capture some pictures of an incredibly vivid sunset at Ben Butterworth Park.

While snapping picture after picture on his smartphone, the teenaged Gomez witnessed a father-son combo fishing on one of many docks overlooking the great Mississippi River at Ben Butterworth Park.

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Out of nowhere, he heard two large splashes. When Riley oriented himself towards the dock where the fishing father and son were, he noticed that the young boy was nowhere to be found. He immediately assumed that the six-year-old boy had drowned. Gomez witnessed firsthand the 25-year-old father leaping into the Mississippi River in a heart-wrenching attempt to save his son from drowning.

Gomez immediately ran towards the scene, as did another innocent bystander named Von Thang. They both jumped in the Mississippi River to save the father and son from the strong undertow that the United States' largest river had that day.

While they heroically saved six-year-old Jaden, Malik disappeared in the deep Mississippi River and was declared dead by first responders who were present at the scene after Gomez called emergency services.

Although Riley wasn't aware that fisherman Malik Williams' wife was watching from afar while breastfeeding the couple's newborn daughter, it turns out Heather Williams watched the ordeal play out in real time, too.

At least Jaden can rest assured that his father loved him more than he loved himself.

Although water covers some three-quarters of planet Earth, most people aren't strong swimmers. Further, people sometimes make poor decisions to go swimming or diving in bodies of water that aren't suitable for such activities. Have you ever come close to drowning? What did the heart-racing experience feel like, in hindsight?