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A Florida A & M University student Te-Andre Brown passed away trying to help someone during spring break. Craig Mitchell a fraternity brother of Brown remembers his friend as a superhero.

“He was a superhero,” Mitchell told Atlanta Black. “If I had to use one word to describe him, it would be superhero,” Mitchell stated emphatically. Brown, a senior was attempting to save someone at St. Andrew Bay nearby the coast of Panama City. The 21-year-old business administration major was one of ten people on the March 15 spring break trip. Brown’s body was found by U.S. Coast Guard and Bay County Sheriff’s Office on March 16.

Brown was on a pontoon boat that the group was going back to return according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. “They stopped so they could swim. People were jumping off the vessel and swimming back to it”, the FWC said. “One female jumped off the vessel and was having trouble swimming. Four persons jumped in and got her back to the boat. During this incident, Mr. Brown did not come back up to the surface.”