University of Nebraska basketball star Deng Mayar tragically died Saturday in a shocking drowning incident. He was 22.

The Omaha forward got into trouble while he was swimming with a friend at the Blackridge Reservoir in Herriman, 20 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, on Saturday just before 6 p.m., Fox 13 reported. 3

Sa Mafutaga, 21, Mayar’s friend who was with him in the reservoir at the time, was able to reach the shore but then realized his friend was still in the water.

He went back in to help, but couldn’t reach his friend, and was pulled to safety himself by Unified Fire Authority.

“It was scary. We saw the police running past us with a stretcher, and there was a person on there who was really pale and wasn’t moving,” witness Hudsyn Sandoval, who lives nearby, told Fox 13

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