Boy, 14, recalls almost losing leg in NC beach shark horror: ‘I was just screaming and screaming’

A 14-year-old West Virginia boy recalled the moment a shark tore into his right leg while he and a pal were splashing around in the surf at a North Carolina beach over the weekend.

Blayne Brown said he was in the water at North Topsail Beach with a friend around 12:30 p.m. on Sunday when she took off for the sand and things went terrifyingly wrong, WNCT-TV News said in a report .

“So she ran away, then like right after she just ran away I think it just bit me,” Blayne told the outlet.

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“I was in the water, like screaming for help,” he said. “People just looked at me and I thought I was just screaming and screaming. I didn’t even know there was a shark that bit me. It just scared me so bad.”

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North Topsail Beach Police Chief William Younginer told WNCT that cops were at the teen’s side quickly after he limped out of the surf and onto the shore bleeding heavily.

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“You had about a two-minute response out to him, which was great,” the chief said. “Bystanders were already putting a towel on there and applying pressure, which is what you should do.”

Brown was rushed to the Camp Lejeune Naval Medical Center at the nearby military base, a major trauma facility where he went into surgery to repair damaged tendons, officials at the hospital said in a Facebook Post .

According to the facility, the teenager is expected to recover but will have scars from the ordeal.

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