Luke Laidley, a 43-year-old father and 9/11 attack survivor, passed away after attempting to save a number of children from drowning.
Around 1:30 pm on Tuesday, the trio was hauling a raft filled with children as they celebrated the Fourth of July near Chicago’s Elder Beach on Lake Michigan. Suddenly, the boat capsized.
Winnetka fire officials told ABC 7 Chicago on Thursday that Laidley dived into the water right away to help several of the kids who couldn’t swim.
According to the officials, he was submerged in the water for roughly a minute before he and the kids were saved.
The reports added that CPR was performed on him before he was rushed to Evanston Hospital where he died hours later.
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The father of three who leaves behind his children, aged 7, 5, and 3, was a Chicago native who graduated from Boston College and moved to New York to work at Morgan Stanley, an investment banking firm on the 61st floor of Tower Two of the World Trade Center in New York in 2001.
On the second day of his new job, hijacked jetliners crashed into both towers.
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