Victim s family, community celebrated for passage of drowning-prevention laws
Dale Nelson weather 6-28-21
and last updated 2021-06-28 23:46:59-04
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas â Local and state leaders came together Monday to honor the mother of a Corpus Christi teenager who drowned after a rip current off Whitecap Beach dragged him out into the Gulf of Mexico in April of 2019.
Kiwana Denson, mother of 18-year-old King High School Senior Je Sani Smith, led the charge through her Je Sani Smith Foundation to convince representatives and senators in Austin to pass two laws designed to prevent tragedies like the one that happened to her son.