A former minor league baseball player and father drowned after getting caught in a rip current while trying to save a family in the water in South Carolina, according to police and a fundraiser for his family.

Childers was a former professional baseball player, spending 2009 and 2010 in the Baltimore Orioles farm system. After retiring from the sport, he worked as a Cobb County police officer and received a lifetime achievement award for saving lives, per a GoFundMe established to help his family.

Chase Childers, a former minor league baseball player and ex-police officer, has died after rushing into the ocean to save swimmers in a rip current, according to police in South Carolina and a GoFundMe page for his family.

The former MLB prospect and police officer died heroically while saving a family from a rip current in South Carolina, leaving behind his wife and three young children.

Pawleys Island Police Department confirmed drowning victim Chase Childers of Georgia died “trying to save” other swimmers who were in distress.

A Georgia father who lost his life on Pawleys Island over the weekend helped save multiple strangers from a rip current. Anderson ‘Chase’ Childers was a 38-year-old husband, father of three and former police officer.

The coroner’s office has released the identity of the man who was recovered in Pawleys Island on Sunday. Coroner Chase Ridgeway identified the swimmer as Anderson Childers, a 38-year-old from Dallas,