Conn. man called a hero after giving his life while saving his son on Bantam Lake NBC Boston [Video]

Remembering the life of a Meriden man who saved a life. A benefit was held for 27-year-old Kyree Dowd who died last week on Bantam Lake. His girlfriend says he saved her teenage son from drowning.

“Very energetic. He’s a hero. Amazing.”

Those are just some of the words Stacy Pare describes her fiancée Kyree Dowd. The memories too many to count for his family. All of them related to the positive energy he had.

“He took somebody to prom because she was not out, and she wasn’t comfortable going as she was. He just took her and said we’re going to have a great time,” Heather Cole, Dowd’s mother, said.

Dowd died last week during a camping trip while saving her son from drowning on Bantam Lake.

“He just jumped in, and I can’t say he did what anybody would do because he did what most of us can’t do,” Cole said.

The pain of …