A teenager is recovering from injuries to his right leg after a shark attack at a North Carolina beach Sunday afternoon.
North Topsail Beach Police Chief William Younginer told Fox News Digital that he rushed to the scene in Onslow County where 14-year-old Blayne Brown had been bitten.
“I ran towards an emergency on the beach. [police] officers [also] “It's over,” he said. “There was a 14-year-old male who had been bitten by a shark.”
The attack occurred around 12:30 pm on North Topsail Beach, near beach access number 4 in Onslow County.
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“We heard a lot of commotion and everyone was shouting, 'Get out of the water! Shark, shark!'” witness Chasity Keeter told WRAL-TV. “It was really scary.”
Brown was reportedly visiting from West Virginia.
Topsail Island, North Carolina, where a teenager was bitten by a shark over the weekend. (Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty Images)
“I was in the water, like screaming for help,” Brown told WWAY-TV3. “People just looked at me and thought I was just screaming for the sake of screaming. I didn't even know there was a shark that had bitten me. I got really scared.”
The shark bit Brown twice, once on the leg and once on the ankle.
Fortunately, two police officers and an emergency medical services officer were already on scene due to an earlier unrelated distress call.
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“Bystanders had pulled him out, wrapped him in a towel and stopped the bleeding, which is the right thing to do,” Younginer said. “That is [exactly] what they should have done.”
A tiger shark swims in the Atlantic Ocean. (Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images)
Two officers applied a tourniquet to Brown and transported him to nearby Camp Lejeune Naval Medical Center, where he is recovering from his injuries.
Younginer shared that shark attacks are extremely rare in the area.
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“We have some people who step on a stingray, things like that, but we haven't had [a shark attack]” he said. “I've been here since 2018. We haven't had a shark bite.”
Younginer said Brown is expected to be released from the hospital soon.
