COLUMBUS: Police have provided a funeral escort for a central Ohio man who died trying to save a child from an icy pond last week.
Columbus police and other first responders said they were treating Thursday’s funeral of 30-year-old James Jenkins as that of a hero and fallen brother.
Jenkins died after going into a pond at a Columbus apartment complex after a 5-year-old child fell in on Feb. 7. Rescue divers pulled Jenkins and the boy from the freezing water some time later. Both later died.
Witnesses say Jenkins did all he could to try to save the boy’s life. He tried to hold the boy’s head above the water as they both struggled in the icy pond.
