Pint-sized Hero Dies After Saving Friend
News Friday, August 10th, 2012FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) _ A 4-year-old boy has died three days after witnesses say he saved a 3-year-old girl from drowning in a North Texas neighborhood pool.
In a statement issued Thursday, Cris and Misty Vento said they had decided to remove their son, Xander Vento, from life support at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth. They said they would donate their son’s organs.
Xander Vento had been hospitalized since he was removed from a pool on Monday afternoon and lapsed into a coma.
Medstar ambulance spokesman Matt Zavadsky says witnesses told paramedics that Xander and a 3-year-old girl were in the pool when the girl started to drown. They said Xander held the struggling girl’s head above water until she was safe but became exhausted and slipped below the water’s surface.
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on Aug 10 2012. Filed under News.
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In memory of Xander Vento
A true and faithful boy who gave his life saving a young girl and the thing he loved to do on August 6, 2012 in this location. (He went Home to be with the Lord on August 10, 2012).
God alone understands.