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South Carolina boy saves 85-year-old woman’s life

WATCH ABOVE: A fifth grader from West Columbia, South Carolina saved an 85-year-old woman’s life when he saw her lying helplessly in her yard. Sonia Gutierrez reports.

A fifth grader from West Columbia, South Carolina saved an 85-year-old woman’s life earlier this week when he saw her lying on the ground.

Charles Warren was riding his bike when he saw the woman, Italean Hudson, lying helplessly in her yard.

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“I was very, very scared,” he added.

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Hudson had fallen when she found a weed in her garden and wanted to remove it.

She had been on the ground for about an hour before Warren saw her.

“I was hoping she would live and she did,” Warren said.

Hudson is now recovering at home.

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