A women’s football team expressed sorrow Sunday over the loss of a player who died in an attempt to save a five-year-old boy from drowning. He also died in the incident, which reportedly occurred Saturday afternoon at a Houston residence owned by former Major League Baseball star Carl Crawford.
A spokeswoman for the Houston Police told the Houston Chronicle that the woman, subsequently identified as Bethany Lartigue, jumped into a backyard pool after the boy began having trouble breathing while swimming. They were unresponsive as they were taken to a hospital and were later declared dead, the spokeswoman said.