CTV News has learned Rinelle Harper, was discharged from hospital Friday, following a vicious attack on Nov. 8.

Two construction workers who helped save her are now sharing their story.

What was supposed to be an average Saturday on the job site for construction workers Sean Vincent and Ed Mehanovic turned into anything but typical.

The two workers from a building project at Assiniboine Avenue and Navy Way were alerted by a passerby that a badly beaten girl was lying by the Assiniboine River.

This happened when they arrived at work at around 6:45 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 8.

Mehanovic said he asked the man if he had called police. The man said he couldn't.

Not knowing what they were getting into, Vincent immediately called 911 and the two men ran down to the river and saw what appeared to be a lifeless body.

They later learned it was Rinelle Harper.

Vincent said when he got to the riverwalk and saw Rinelle, he didn't think she would survive.

“We tried to comfort her - just tell her that help was on the way,” Vincent said.

“At the end of the day, we were just hoping for the best that she made it.”

Mehanovic thought she was already gone.

“I thought for (a) second, she is dead,” Mehanovic said.

The men put their jackets on the teen to keep her warm and stayed with Rinelle until paramedics arrived minutes later.

“She didn’t deserve that. Nobody deserved that,” Mehanovic said.

Fred Harper, Rinelle's grandfather, said the family wants to thank the two men for helping his granddaughter.

Asked if he felt like a hero, Vincent said he was just a guy going to work on a Saturday.

“No hero here, man,” Vincent responded. “Just a guy with a cellphone. If that was my child, you know, that’s all I thought about - if that was my child lying there.”

Ed Mehanovic said something like this should not happen in Winnipeg.

“That’s somebody’s daughter. That’s somebody’s sister. That’s somebody’s friend,” he said.

He said he has daughters around the same age and hopes to take them to visit Rinelle.

Two suspects, age 20 and 17, face charges in the brutal attack on Rinelle.

The suspects charged in the attack on Rinelle also face charges for a sexual assault against a woman in the Sherbrook and Portage area of Winnipeg on Nov. 8.

CTV News is told the woman is staying with her brother and has been relying on the help of the Winnipeg Police Service’s victim services, while trying to cope with what happened.