An unidentified woman, a top Dallas police commander and Dallas Fire-Rescue teamed up Tuesday afternoon to save an 11-year-old boy after he got stuck Tuesday in the Trinity River.

Police aren't sure exactly how the boy wound up in the river. But two women were fishing Tuesday afternoon on the river bank near Great Trinity Forest Way and S. Central Expressway when they heard the boy splashing and flailing in the water.

DPD Deputy Chief Albert Martinez speaking at the Trinity River Water Rescue on Tuesday, July 17. (Briana Lao)

The women had been talking to the boy earlier across the river and believe he had slipped. Police say he could have intentionally jumped in and tried to swim across.

Regardless, he got stuck in the mud and couldn't make it far past the bank.

One of the women immediately jumped into the river and swam to the boy, holding his body against the bank until help arrived.

After arriving on the scene, Deputy Police Chief Albert Martinez could see that the woman and the boy were tired. He took off his gun belt and belt keepers, left them in his car, and told dispatch he was going in for them.

"I wanted to do my part to at least help, see if I could give her some rest, and ensure that this child would not somehow be carried away by the current," Martinez said.

Martinez took the woman's place, digging his fingers into the muddy river bank as he waited for Dallas Fire-Rescue.

"I told the child, 'Just dig in your fingers as well,' but he was just kind of clawing at the bank where it was dry," Martinez said. "From there, we just held on."

Dallas Fire-Rescue, with life jackets and rope in tow, were able to bring Martinez, the woman and the child safely back to shore.

Officials immediately sent the boy to a local hospital for evaluation, but he showed no physical injuries and didn't seem distressed.