Boy, 11, named sole survivor of Bodega Bay boat accident that killed family who were victims of 2017 shooting

An 11-year-old lad was the lone 1 to past a tragic California boating mishap this weekend.

The lad was a relative to the children who survived a November 2017 mass shooting. The shooter fired astatine 3 of Rancho Tehama nonmigratory Tiffany Phommathep's children portion she was driving them to school.

The calamity astatine sea, which saw 5 radical died and 14 injured and progressive this aforesaid family, occurred astir precisely 7 years to the time aft the shooting.

Tiffany's husband, Johnny Phommathep, on with sons Johnny Jr., 17, and Jake, 14 - some of whom were injured successful the shooting 7 years agone - acceptable sail connected Saturday for an day crabbing travel connected Bodega Bay, which is much than 60 miles northbound of San Francisco.

The vessel yet capsized successful the unsmooth waters, sparking a hunt for survivors. The 11-year-old was the lone 1 who managed to aquatics backmost to enactment sometime Saturday nighttime utilizing a cooler to enactment buoyant, ABC 7 reported.

'He self-rescued. He was capable to marque it to enactment and stayed the nighttime connected the shore. In the morning, helium walked up and was recovered by passersby connected Highway 1 and helium survived. It's truly miraculous that helium made it,' said Misti Wood, a spokesperson for the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office.

Levi Read, Chief Petty Officer with the US Coast Guard, told ABC 7 that the 11-year-old is present successful unchangeable information aft being taken to the hospital. 

Johnny Jr., who sometimes went by JJ, was recovered dormant connected the coast. 

For the different 4 missing boaters, including Johnny Sr. and 14-year-old Jake, it's not apt that they'll beryllium recovered alive, according to the Coast Guard.

'The survivability astatine this constituent is unlikely,' Read said.

To this point, Johnny Jr.'s assemblage has been the lone 1 recovered by authorities. 

This comes aft the Coast Guard suspended the hunt astatine astir 6:30 p.m. connected Sunday.

Rescue crews spent astir 57 combined hours and covered much than 2,100 quadrate miles, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

'The determination to suspend a hunt is ever hard to marque and ne'er done lightly,' Chief Warrant Officer Michael L. Zapawa, hunt and rescue coordinator for the San Francisco sector, said successful a quality release. 'Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the missing boaters during this incredibly hard time.'

Now Tiffany, who has 4 surviving children, has experienced 2 horrific tragedies conscionable years apart. What's adjacent more, she conscionable added different small 1 to her family: a babe lad that's astir 3 months old.

Sara Lobdell is the schoolhouse caput astatine Rancho Tehama Elementary, the schoolhouse that was changeable astatine during the wide shooting 7 years agone that Tiffany and her children narrowly survived.

Lobdell is simply a person of Tiffany's and organized a GoFundMe page to assistance her done this astir caller tragedy.

A erstwhile GoFundMe established for the Phommathep household aft the 2017 shooting said Tiffany's husband, a subject veteran, was the sole provider.

'We're successful contact,' Lobdell said regarding her conversations with Tiffany. 'She's trying to bent successful determination for her different children.'

'It doesn't look real,' she added. 

Lobdell's GoFundMe has raised much than $16,000 truthful far, aiming to scope a extremity of $100,000.

'We're conscionable trying to bash thing to alleviate what she's going through... and assistance financially immoderate mode we can,' Lobdell told DailyMail.com. 'So I'm truly blessed astir that.'

Almost 7 years ago, Tiffany was driving her 2 sons who had been connected the boat, Johnny Jr. and Jake, to Rancho Tehama Elementary connected the greeting of November 14, 2017. Her then-2-year-old lad Niko was besides successful the car.

Johnny Jr. and Jake were 10 and 7 astatine the time, and it was a time similar immoderate other.

That was until 44-year-old Kevin Neal, who conscionable truthful happened to beryllium a neighbour of the family, rear-ended Tiffany's pickup motortruck and began firing wildly astatine them, the Redding Record Searchlight reported.

Tiffany acted fast, throwing her assemblage implicit Johnny Jr. successful the rider spot to shield him from bullets.

'I conscionable kept connected praying that he’d spell distant due to the fact that I can’t instrumentality different bullet. I knew I wouldn’t marque it,' Tiffany told KCRA days aft the shooting.

Tiffany, past 31 years old, was changeable 4 times successful the back, near enarthrosis and erstwhile successful the hip. One of the bullets became lodged successful her intestines. 

Johnny Jr. was changeable doubly successful the calf, Jake was changeable supra his near ankle, and Niko didn't get deed but did person scratches connected his look and cervix from solid shards.

Neal died by termination aft constabulary caught up to him. 

Johnny Sr., who wasn't contiguous during the shooting, aboriginal praised his namesake lad for pulling his 2 younger brothers into the beforehand of the car to support them.

'He was a leader the mode helium performed,' helium said.

DailyMail.com has reached retired to the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office for an update connected the missing vessel but didn't person a effect earlier publication.