Robenson Accelon was at his home in Lake Worth on March 21 watching his 12 and 10-year-old sisters.
Accelon said he noticed his older brother acting strangely, and then his brother disappeared.
"He came back and announced that he was going to burn down my house. I wasn't having it so I kind of stopped him, but then he went after my sisters so I stopped him from doing that, too," said Accelon.
Accelon was the youngest recipient of the Good Samaritan Award among the six heroic citizens honored Thursday by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
"He actually saved the life of his siblings," said PBSO Sheriff Ric Bradshaw. "They were involved in a disturbance where one of them was choking another one and the boy was able to stop that.”
Accelon was able to fight off his brother who was trying to strangle his sister.
His brother is currently in the Palm Beach County Jail awaiting psychiatric evaluation.
Sheriff Bradshaw presented Accelon with the award.
For one individual, a quick jolt of coffee was all she needed to help spot a missing man and jump into action.
Margaret Fisher grabbed a cup of coffee from Starbucks in Greenacres on February 14, 2016.
She was pulling out of the parking lot when she says she spotted a car that immediately grabbed her attention.
"I noticed an alert about a missing individual that was posted on the Palm Beach Post online and I noticed a car that I thought was his and got behind it and checked the license plate and it was and so they were able to locate this missing alert man and return him to his family," said Fisher.
PBSO had issued a missing-endangered person alert for 84-year-old Leroy Freeman earlier that day.
Freeman was supposed to have met his family at a bowling alley but never showed up.
Fisher said she was visiting her elderly mother and felt relieved that the Freeman family was able to be reunited.
