Aldine HS football player pulls woman, toddler from flooded ditch

As the remnants of Imelda drenched southeast Texas, an Aldine High School football player jumped in to help rescue people stuck in the flood water.

Jayden Payne joined two other men in saving a woman and her toddler when the car the family was in went into the ditch near the school Thursday afternoon.

"I kicked my slides off and I took my I.D. off, threw my wallet, and I just ran across in front of all the cars. I didn't care that there were cars coming," Payne told Good Morning America.

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When everyone got their phones to record what was going on, Jayden Payne jumped in to help.

It happened around 12:30 p.m. when the high school junior and running back was on the way to lunch with his teammates and offensive coordinator, according to VYPE.

When Payne saw the child, his focus went straight to her.

"She was four years old and I was like, 'She's too young for her life to get taken away right now.' So I was frightened for her. So I just put my life out there for hers," Jayden said.

Read the full story about the rescue from our partners at VYPE.

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