High school student honored for saving child from drowning

AUSTIN (KXAN) — An LBJ Early College High School freshman is getting a lot of attention this week for saving a child’s life.
The Austin Independent School District honored Marcus Weakly at Monday’s school board meeting.
Weakly, 14, was swimming with friends at an apartment complex pool in east Austin on June 17, 2017. He was playing with a beach ball when a friend pointed to a 4-year-old boy underwater at the bottom of the deep end — lifeless. He dove down to take a