MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) – A devastating discovery south of Milwaukee. Family members are heartbroken after crews recovered the body of a 10-year-old boy near Pulaski Park. The boy was caught in a drainage tunnel near 27 and Loomis. His father and a good Samaritan who jumped in to help, were also swept away and missing.
Family members anxiously awaited news from first responders, raising hopes that the two missing men would be found alive.
CBS 58 learned that the two men were neighbors. They live right next to each other. Both are from Burma in Southeast Asia and both are active members of the Milwaukee Muslim Association.
Tuesday morning began in horror for the Muslim community with the discovery of a dead 10-year-old boy.
Mouhammad Arman Rashidullah will turn 11 years old on July 4.
“Everybody knows each other so everyone is hurt right now,” said Mohammad Assad, who knows the family through the Milwaukee Muslim Association.
Friends and family are showing support, going in and out of Arman’s home and personally searching for Arman’s father, Rashidullah Abdul Hashim, and their neighbor, Zakaria Gonumeah.
“You know as only God can show us the way so everything is by God,” said Mohammad Shahiit, who knows about the family through the Milwaukee Muslim Association.
“We are all deeply saddened. We are completely devastated by the loss,” said Iman Ameer Hamza of the Muslim Association of Milwaukee.
What happened to Gonumeah and Hashim is still unclear.
Ashraf Yassin, Good Samaritan’s grandson, who is translating for Nur Begum, Good Samaritan’s sister, said: “Almost 24 hours, you can tell how long a person can live there.
Ashraf Yassin is Gonumeah’s grandson.
“It’s like whenever I’m laughing right now, I don’t feel like it’s appropriate to laugh and whenever I cry, I feel it’s inappropriate to cry, I don’t know, I can’t even speak. feeling right now because all i want is for my uncle to come home if i think about it i can never find another person like him, not a man you like him,” Yassin said.
Smart, funny and kind, when he heard his neighbors were in trouble, he reacted quickly.
“So he took the car and went all the way down the street. He stopped the car and jumped into the water just to save them so he held on to them,” Yassin said.
The afternoon storm flooded the canal with fast-moving water, too dangerous for firefighters to reach. The family said it was difficult to see first responders on the lawn, not in the water.
Both men have made a huge impact on the community. The family did not give up hope that they could be found alive.
