Chase Childers, a former professional baseball player, died while trying to save swimmers in South Carolina. He selflessly jumped into the dangerous rip current to rescue five family members drowning in the water.

Anderson “Chase” Childers, 38, from Dallas was pulled from the ocean on Sunday in Pawley’s Island, S.C., the city’s police chief confirmed to WPDE. Police say Childers ran into the water to help five people who had been caught in a rip current. They say he rescued all five, but got caught in the rip current himself and died.