A hero Illinois boy has died days after he desperately tried to save his doomed mom from an SUV submerged in a retention pond, police in Aurora said.

Little Ronaldo Alanis-Ramirez told his 7-year-old sister he needed to try to rescue their mother from the vehicle after it careened into a pond about 5 a.m. Wednesday.

The little girl was spotted by a police officer thrashing in the water and was rescued, but her 9-year-old brother wasn’t pulled from the SUV until about 30 minutes later.

Ronaldo died just before noon Sunday at a Park Ridge Hospital, police said. His mother, 31-year-old Maria Ramirez, spent 40 minutes under water before her rescue and died Saturday about 11 p.m., said police in Aurora, some 40 miles west of Chicago.

"They're just a very nice family," the boy’s school principal, Julia Doverspike, told the Aurora-Beacon News. "We're going to miss them."

Cops say the mom may have been speeding when she hit another car, swerved across the roadway and a patch of grass, and plunged into the water, fully submerging the SUV some 50 yards offshore.

The girl was pulled safely from the water, but her brother, who just finished third grade at Dieterich Elementary School, refused to leave his mother.

"She said, 'I told him to come with me,'" Lesly Merlo, a school parent liaison who spoke to the child, told the Beacon News. "He said ... 'I have to go back for mom.'"

Maria Ramirez was remembered as a loving mom to her two children, while the boy was mourned by classmates and teachers who miss his warm personality and love of soccer.

“He will forever be remembered as a hero. His last actions on earth were to save his little sister and his attempt also save his mom,” friends of the family wrote on a fund-raising site that has since raised nearly $3,000 in donations. “He is now an angel in heaven.”


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angieberry:
This is so touching

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Awww..so touching