Nate Davenport

Nate Davenport died while attempting to rescue a boy from electrocution, Jupiter, Florida, October 22, 2023. A 10-year-old boy was in a shallow outdoor fountain when he fell in the water. Authorities later determined that electric current was leaking from light fixtures in the fountain. While the boy was unresponsive in the water, Davenport’s son and daughter, both 8, who were also playing in the water, were able to exit the fountain. They ran to an outdoor seating area overlooking the fountain to inform Davenport, 45, engineering firm president, and the boy’s father, that the boy needed help. Davenport ran to the fountain, arriving ahead of the boy’s father, and jumped into the water near the boy. Davenport immediately was shocked and fell into the water, unresponsive, beside the boy. Entering the fountain next, the boy’s father also was shocked and then became immobilized on his knees in the water as he attempted to aid Davenport and his own son. Davenport’s 8-year-old son then grasped an arm of the boy’s father, receiving a shock before helping him move his legs out of the fountain and onto the ledge, where the father then lay and pulled his son out of the fountain while being shocked. The father and others then pulled Davenport from the water around the time a bystander shut off the power to the fountain. Arriving first-responders tended to the boy, who was revived at the scene. The boy then was taken to a hospital, where he remained for two more days, with his father also receiving treatment for his extended exposure to the electrified water. Davenport’s 8-year-old son also recovered after a hospital stay, as did an older son who also was shocked. Davenport died of electrocution.