A Texas family is dealing with unimaginable heartbreak after a two-year-old boy drowned while under the care of his mother’s close family friend.

Malachi LeBlanc was found unresponsive in a community pool in Bexar County, San Antonio, on August 5.

Emergency services were called out to the 25800 block of Turquoise Sky in the  Indian Springs neighborhood, KENS5 reported.

‘Malachi had either jumped or fallen into the pool while he was having a snack,’ Malachi’s mother, Grace LeBlanc, told the Daily Mail.

‘I got a call that there was a drowning accident and he was being rushed to the hospital. I just dropped everything and ran. It was supposed to take me 30 minutes, but I got there in 21.’

Malachi was being watched by a family friend at the time of the event, but LeBlanc said she was too upset to give further details on how the tragedy happened. His death was ruled an accident.

‘He was supervised by somebody I trust with my whole life. And I still trust them,’ LeBlanc said. ‘This is someone who has watched all of my children. It was just an accident.’

On her way to the hospital from work, LeBlanc texted her friends, family and members of her church to pray for her son.

When she and her husband Myron LeBlanc arrived at the hospital, doctors informed them that they managed to revive Malachi’s heartbeat.

From there, the toddler was taken to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), ‘and that’s where we were for eight days,’ LeBlanc said.

In the PICU, a CT scan showed swelling on Malachi’s brain following the drowning.

‘[The doctor] essentially insinuated that there was a high chance that he’s not going to make it,’ LeBlanc added.

‘I knew from the very beginning that there’s nothing medicine or doctors could do. I was praying for a miracle, I was believing it with all my heart.’

Malachi was declared dead on Sunday, four days after the incident.

The couple were soon after approached by the Organ Donation Alliance with the opportunity of donating their son’s organs.

While Malachi’s mother was initially opposed to the idea, she later came around after learning that Malachi’s donation would give other children a second chance at life.

‘If the miracle I’m praying for is not the miracle we get, we’re still going to see miracles from this situation,’ she told the Daily Mail

‘And so it immediately changed my heart, and I agreed to the organ donation route. And I felt peace with that.’

It’s likely that Malachi’s heart, liver and kidneys will be donated, although the transplant process will ultimately dictate the outcome.

‘I had to kiss my son goodbye and they had to roll him into the operation room,’ she said.

LeBlanc described Malachi as ‘clever,’ ‘funny’ and ‘just perfect.’

He loved to sing, dance and he learned to speak shortly after he turned one, she added.

‘He was an awesome baby and I am so honored to have had the privilege of being his mom,’ she said.

The family has started a GoFundMe to help cover medical and funeral expenses, with around $23,000 raised towards the goal amount of $65,000 thus far.

Their church, Pursuit Church San Antonio, will be holding a service to honor Malachi on Friday, August 21.