Boy Missing in McWhorter Park Last Night

March 19, 2008 by elbo95.

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Friends of McWhorter Park & Edgemont Park Community Club sends our prayers to this boy and his family. We are all terribly shaken up by this tragedy.

 Mesquite, Texas – Emergency workers are searching for a 14-year-old boy they said was swept away while playing near a rain-swollen creek in Mesquite Tuesday afternoon.

Mesquite and Balch Springs emergency service workers conducted a search and rescue mission south of the I-635 overpass at Bruton Road for Sean Herbert.

Herbert and a friend were playing in a nearby creek when they were pulled in by fast-moving flood waters at about 1:40 p.m., but Herbert’s friend was able to swim to safety, emergency workers said.

The boy who escaped told authorities that he witnessed Herbert being swept away and sucked into a drainage pipe.

“It just takes a couple of inches to wash a car away, so you can imagine what it can do to a person on foot,” Lt. Jeff Miller said.

Herbert’s brother, Tristan Boudreux, said Herbert was a good kid who was in the band at school and enjoyed playing video games.

Mesquite and Balch Springs emergency workers were on site searching for the missing teen, and the Mesquite Police Department has set up a mobile command center at McWhorter Park in the 1700 block of Springlake Drive.

Rescue crews have set up checkpoints every quarter mile and are using infrared technology that can detect body heat.

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