The three men found Bertha and Ashley Martin after their car went into Cobb Lake on Dec. 5, 2007. They all helped pull the victims out and move them to shore, and Horn and Kelley helped administer CPR, according to the three men’s statements on the police report.
Bertha Martin, 46, died exactly two weeks later. Ashley, 12, survived.
“We still feel bad about that, and we always will,” Kelley said. “But as a team we did everything we could at the time.”
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Tags: Cobb Lake, Distinguished Citizen Award, heroism, police, rescue
