{"id":34576,"date":"2026-08-09T13:38:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T08:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=34576"},"modified":"2026-08-09T13:38:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T08:38:02","slug":"drowning-of-3-year-old-girl-at-a-california-reservoir-is-now-being-investigated-as-a-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=34576","title":{"rendered":"Drowning of 3-year-old girl at a California reservoir is now being investigated as a homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/891cb5f\/2147483647\/strip\/false\/crop\/3992x2662+0+0\/resize\/1500x1000!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fb3%2F09%2Fa8fe7f3443ba844541839f390109%2F1535135-me-central-valley-waterways-0034-eat.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div data-element=\"story-body\" data-subscriber-content=\"\">\n<p>A 3-year-old girl\u2019s drowning death at a California reservoir is being now investigated as a homicide, according to the Tuolumne County Sheriff. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is an active investigation right now,\u201d Sheriff David Vasquez said at a Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors meeting, according to <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/california-drowning-reservoir-22370668.php\" target=\"_blank\">SFGate<\/a>. \u201cWe are treating it as a homicide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On July 18 around 3:34 p.m., the Tuolumne County Sheriff\u2019s Office got a 911 call about a missing 3-year-old   who could have drowned in the Fleming Meadows Lagoon at Lake Don Pedro, according to a <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tuolumnecountysheriff\/posts\/pfbid02PhFLR8pzjgaiV12z2xoAAYgVjAeEm1uUh5CJudQj22LPdSQvmgCpaHrqxEayZGrpl\" target=\"_blank\">Sheriff\u2019s Office social media post<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The girl was found while deputies were responding, and they  took over CPR from bystanders until medics and fire personnel arrived, according to the post. The child was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Tuolumne County Sheriff\u2019s Office is asking for help from the public in getting more information, according to the post. <\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re looking for photos and videos of the child on a raft or boat with other children, and witnesses who could have seen the child before she was pulled from the water. <\/p>\n<p>A GoFundMe for the family, which has been taken down, said that the girl was on a camping trip with her family. It had raised more than $13,000 before being taken down, according to internet archives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was meant to be a joyful family camping trip became an unimaginable nightmare that no parent, sibling, or grandparent should ever have to endure,\u201d the page read.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 3-year-old girl\u2019s drowning death at a California reservoir is being now investigated as a homicide, according to the Tuolumne County Sheriff. \u201cThat is an active investigation right now,\u201d Sheriff David Vasquez said at a Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors meeting, according to SFGate. \u201cWe are treating it as a homicide.\u201d On July 18 around&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/9ce379b\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3992x2096+0+283\/resize\/1200x630!\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fb3%2F09%2Fa8fe7f3443ba844541839f390109%2F1535135-me-central-valley-waterways-0034-eat.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-hub"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}