Five people, including two sets of parents, di£d while trying to rescue a struggling swimmer in an Ohio river on Sunday night, July 19.
A group of five adults, two children, and another individual was out on the Scioto River to “enjoy themselves a summer night” of fishing when the tragedy unfolded, Delaware County Sheriff Jeffrey Balzer said at a news conference on Monday, July 20.
At some point, one adult went into the water to swim and began struggling, prompting two other adults to dive in to try to save them. After the pair also began to struggle, another two adults went in to help, Balzer explained.
None of them made it out of the river alive.
Authorities rushed to the scene after a motorist noticed a “clearly distraught” young child running along a nearby road around 9 p.m. and called 911.
The terrified child said that his “family was in the river,” cops said.
