There are multiple heroes in this story, but without the efforts of 12-year-old Dwight Winbush, it would be a sad tale instead of one with a happy ending.
After his mother suffered a seizure while driving, causing her foot to slam on the accelerator and carry the car with her and her two kids into a lake, the quick-thinking Dwight managed to escape the vehicle, swim to shore, and run to get help.
Police bodycam video shows the boy flagging down police and desperately pleading for them to help his family members from drowning.
Newly released police bodycam video shows the heart-pounding rescue of Jonquetta Winbush, a Texas mom of two, and her two children — 16-year-old daughter Bri-Asia and 12-year-old son Dwight — on July 24 in West Orange, Texas.
“She’s having a seizure! She’s stuck! She’s in the water, help her!” Dwight says in the bodycam video clip.
West Orange Officer Charles Cobb and multiple good Samaritans responded to the scene at a pond off Highway 87 in West Orange and found a gray car partially submerged with Winbush inside.
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“She’s having a seizure! She’s stuck! She’s in the water, help her!” A 12-year-old boy helped save his mom from drowning when he flagged down police after she had a seizure while driving and drove her car into a pond before falling unconscious. https://t.co/7oYXsVwC3i pic.twitter.com/SRmneZKCTg
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) August 14, 2024
As I said, Dwight wasn’t the only hero in this story; without the work of Officer Cobb and others, tragedy would have been inevitable:
West Orange Officer Charles Cobb and multiple good Samaritans responded to the scene at a pond off Highway 87 in West Orange and found a gray car partially submerged with Winbush inside.
Bevnisha Holman, Winbush’s sister, told ABC News that Dwight had managed to escape the car and swim out of the pond before running to find help.
“My nephew is able to swim out of the car to my niece, who then told him to go call for help,” Holman said.
After Cobb heard Dwight and saw what had happened, he ran to his cruiser to grab a window punch to break into the car. Good Samaritans including Epifanio Munguia also jumped in to help.
“I realized that it was happening at that very moment. I pulled over and I jumped in the water,” Munguia recalled to ABC News.
The situation seemed to be under control—but then the car started to go down into the depths.
Munguia said he and others were able to break the submerged car’s back window but the car then began to sink.
“And then as soon as we were opening the door, the front door, I heard ‘I got her,’ and I felt like I won the lottery,” Munguia said.
It‘s impressive that a 12-year-old had the presence of mind not to panic and instead to seek assistance from those who were in a position to help. I’m guessing his mom and sister are going to be really, really nice to him for a while. Kudos also go out to Officer Cobb and Epifanio Munguia, however, who both took swift action to avoid tragedy.
While Kamala Harris wants to turn our country into a socialist “utopia,” and we have an invisible president, and war rages in the Middle East, sometimes it’s nice to remember that there a plethora of good people out there too.
This is one in a series about everyday heroes that don’t necessarily make the front pages. It’s a chance to talk about something other than Kamala’s cackling, Walz’s stolen valor, and the imminent conflict in the Middle East.
I’m inviting readers to send me stories of people they know or who they’ve read about who have done heroic acts—large or small, physical or otherwise—that have made someone’s life better or saved them from danger. Please email me with any tips at [email protected] or DM me on Twitter. Thanks!
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