WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC (WWAY) — Three friends helped save a prominent local sports figure from a rip current at Wrightsville Beach last week.
Ryan Gillespie, Giuseppe Marturano, and Dashaun Brown said they were preparing for a beach soccer tournament on Thursday, May 21st, near Shell Island on the north end of the beach, when they heard cries for help to get a young boy and an adult woman caught in a rip current.
“You kinda just gotta go with your gut and do what’s right,” Brown said. “I can’t lie and say that I wasn’t scared or like that I was going to drown. But I figured I need to save somebody’s life.”…