(Gray News) - A sheriff's deputy is being credited with rescuing a nonverbal child who had wandered into a Louisiana pond.

Body-camera video of the rescue was shared on social media.

On the evening of Sept. 6, Lafayette Parish sheriff's deputies responded to the 200 block of Blushing Groom Drive in unincorporated Carencro after an 8-year-old non-speaking child with autism had been reported missing.