Public Radio International Exec Vidal Guzman, Jr. Hailed As Hero After Dying While Saving Drowning Son

Vidal Guzman Jr.

VIDAL GUZMAN, JR. a MINNEAPOLIS Senior Manager for PUBLIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL, is being called a hero after saving his son from drowning while vacationing with his family in PUERTO RICO, according to a report in the NEW YORK POST.

GUZMAN died MONDAY at a hospital about 30 miles west of SAN JUAN, after saving his 19-year-old son, VIDAL GUZMAN III, who got caught in a strong riptide at LA POZA DE LAS MUJERES, a tourist attraction on the northern side of the island.

His daughter, MARIELI GUZMAN, a registered nurse, said she was reading on the beach when she saw several people rush to the shoreline, where she saw her dad being carried from the ocean.

The senior GUZMAN pushed his son toward a rock just off the shoreline and the teenager managed to reach the beach.

GUZMAN JR., a father of four, was vacationing with his wife, his son, two daughters and a cousin. Arrangements were being made to return his body to MINNESOTA. 

“I can’t speak for my brother, but we are all devastated,” she wrote in an email to THE POST. “This was a terrible loss for our family and everyone who knew my father.”

“He was a key member of our team and just brought incredible energy and spirit to everything he did,” PRI CEO ALISA MILLER told THE POST. “He’s the kind of person everyone was attracted to — he was fun and had a tenacity about him, but always made things enjoyable.

“He was a key leader in our client relations group. And he was just an extraordinary person and the circumstances of how he passed away are indicative of the kind of man he was.”

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