‘He was the hero,’ man saves drowning child on Sunday at Lake Catherine

OT SPRINGS, Ark. – A scary scene at Lake Catherine State Park ended with a hero, a stranger, saving the life of a 3-year-old.

On Sunday afternoon, Cheryl Vincent, the Superintendent at the park, received a report of a snake bite down by the beach.

“It was a little bit chaotic; there was a lot of noise, people screaming,” Vincent said. “So I walked over there…and that’s when I noticed it wasn’t a snake bite.”

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When she arrived on scene, she rushed over, but by then the girl was out of the water and responsive…

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