Donald Liu, Comer Pediatric Surgery Chief, Dies Saving 2 Drowning Children (VIDEO)

Donald C. Liu.

A man who devoted his life to saving children drowned while pulling two kids from the undertow in Lake Michigan Sunday.
Comer Children's Hospital's Chief of Pediatric Surgery Donald C. Liu was hailed as an expert in minimally invasive pediatric surgery and pioneered certain advanced procedures from Chicago-based hospitals, according to his University of Chicago profile. Earlier this year, Chicago magazine named him one of the city's top doctors.
Liu, 50, was staying at a friend's summer home in Berrien County, Mich., with his wife and three children last weekend, when he saw two young boys struggling against the current Sunday morning, CBS Chicago reports. Just before 10 a.m., Liu jumped into the water and helped pull the children to safety, but was pulled underwater by a riptide in the process and drowned.

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Bodies of drowned boys, 10 and 11, found in New Jersey river 

Francisco Perera, 10, and Devine Nicholas, 11, were seen wading into the water a mile away from the park where they had promised they were going to play.

 

Francisco Perera, 10, left, and 11-year-old Devine Nicholas.

The search for two boys who went missing in New Jersey ended with the heartbreaking discovery of their bodies floating in a river.
Police confirmed that they pulled 10-year-old Francisco Perera and 11-year-old Devine Nicholas from the Raritan River on Monday, WABC-TV reported.
The two friends from New Brunswick were reported missing Sunday night after Francisco told his mother he was going to a park and then didn’t come home.
Marine units and a State Police helicopter were dispatched to search for them.
Investigators do not yet know how the boys ended up at the river – which is about a mile away from the park – or what happened to them.

 

What an idiot. Man viciously attacks own granny after he mistakenly hears her call him ‘chicken’ 

Cops charge South Carolina man with assault and battery following cowardly attack on 67-year-old.

Spartanburgh County Sheriff's Office

Mugshot of Jesse Beam, man accused of allegedly attacking his 67 year old grandmother.

A South Carolina man viciously attacked his grandmother because he thought she called him "a chicken."
The grandmother returned home from the grocery store Saturday to tell her grandson that she had brought him chicken salad, according to the Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office report obtained by the Smoking Gun.

Jesse Beam, 26, allegedly misheard the 67-year-old, shouting at her, "Don't call me chicken, again."

The grandmother said she tried to "explain to Jesse that she was not calling him a chicken" - but her attempts failed.

He reportedly threw a bowl of food at her and then pushed her to the ground face first.
The 67-year-old sustained several cuts and bruises, and a possible broken nose.

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