Teenager Tries to Save 6-Yr-Previous Brother, Each Drown in Hurricane Ian

Extra horror tales proceed to floor within the wake of Hurricane Ian which ravaged South Florida taking the lives of 130 folks.

A grieving mom is mourning the lack of two of her sons who drowned in a close-by canal in Lehigh on Oct. 5. Tahjir Burrowes, 6, had wandered out of his residence sporting solely a diaper and a T-shirt.

The severely autistic boy was drawn to water, his mom stated, and made it to a hurricane-flooded canal close to his residence undetected, NBC Information stories. As soon as his 17-year-old brother Tahjon obtained out of the bathe, he instantly knew one thing was unsuitable.

“Mother, mother, mother! Tahjir obtained out of the home!” Tahjon stated whereas banging on his mother’s bed room door.

Moments later, Lachera Burrowes jumped into her automobile and rushed to the close by canal and when she obtained there, she noticed nothing.

“I noticed nothing,” she stated. “Quiet.”

After calling the police, authorities spent hours looking for the boys. A detective got here to her residence later to let her know that each of her sons drowned within the canal.

Burrowes is aware of Tahjon jumped in to save lots of his little brother. Regardless of being years aside in age, her sons have been very shut.

The mom says the teenager, who was certainly one of her twins, was the one who might assist hold Tahjir calm.

“I don’t know if one may very well be with out the opposite,” Burrows stated.

“He couldn’t stand there and never bounce in.”

The one mother of three, who lives paycheck to paycheck working as an habit counselor, has a pal who launched a GoFundMe on her behalf looking for monetary help for funeral prices.

“We posted a narrative of them lacking within the LEHIGH space of FT. Myers Florida sadly they have been discovered later that day of obvious drowning within the close by canals after hurricane IAN,” the web page shared.

An replace revealed the funeral preparations have been made for Oct. 26.