Two weeks after spending the Fourth of July on a popular South Carolina lake, 12-year-old Jaysen Carr died from a brain-eating amoeba that was living in the warm water.

Their 12-year-old son died after contracting the rare amoeba while spending the Fourth of July swimming and boating on a lake.

My son was a very smart individual. If he had one warning, he would have thought swimming in the lake was a bad idea," the boy's father said.