ME\u2019s office identified man as John Hernandez, 78<\/p>\n
Man who died after rescue attempt at Woodlawn Lake identified (KSAT 12 News)<\/p>\n
SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 The Bexar County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office has identified a man who died after a rescue attempt at Woodlawn Lake in late July. <\/p>\n John Hernandez, 78, died on July 31 after a former SeaWorld lifeguard attempted to save him when she noticed him struggling in the water. She said another bystander jumped into the water to help her carry Hernandez to higher ground.<\/p>\n The San Antonio Fire Department, the San Antonio Police Department and other emergency responders arrived on the scene and began performing chest compressions on Hernandez. <\/p>\n The former lifeguard told KSAT that first responders had said they found a pulse on Hernandez. <\/p>\n An SAFD spokesperson said Hernandez had been taken to a nearby hospital for further treatment. The man was later pronounced dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n RELATED ON KSAT.COM<\/b><\/p>\n Man dies after dramatic rescue attempt at Woodlawn Lake<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Copyright 2025 by KSAT – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n About the Authors<\/p>\n Ryan Cerna is a digital news trainee at KSAT. Cerna graduated with degrees in Journalism and Radio-Television-Film from the University of Texas in 2024. He has worked in newsrooms in Austin and New York City before his time in San Antonio.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Sarah Acosta is a weekend Good Morning San Antonio anchor and a general assignments reporter at KSAT12. She joined the news team in April 2018 as a morning reporter for GMSA and is a native South Texan. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ME\u2019s office identified man as John Hernandez, 78 Man who died after rescue attempt at Woodlawn Lake identified…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":225160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,60541,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,17538],"class_list":{"0":"post-225159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-drowning","10":"tag-san-antonio","11":"tag-sanantonio","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa","20":"tag-woodlawn-lake"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115200483943694105","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n