8-Year-Old Saves Girl From Lake

An 8-year-old Lowell boy is being called a hero after he saved a girl from Freeman Lake Thursday evening. 

The Lowell Sun reported, Devin Levasseur, of Lowell, was in the water toward the area of the lake where it becomes wooded, where people often fish. Devin's mother was teaching Devin how to swim.

Devin spotted a girl floating in the water and thought she was trying to float.

"I looked over and I saw her floating in the water and I told my Mom and I thought she was trying to float," Devin recalled in an interview with the Lowell Sun Friday night.

The police told WHDH-TV, the girl's mother said she left her daughter in ankle-deep water for a minute or two.

The young girl, 3, who has not been identified, began spitting up water and became conscious and alert, but Levasseur said she looked "out of it."