Naya Rivera’s 4-year-old son was asleep, wearing his life jacket, when he was found alone on their rented boat — whereas the previous “Glee” star’s protecting vest was left sitting inside, investigators and witnesses mentioned Thursday.
The 33-year-old actress apparently went for a swim whereas out on California’s Lake Piru along with her son Josey Hollis Dorsey Wednesday afternoon, and by no means made it out of the water, in keeping with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Workplace.
“We now have no indication after speaking to her son that Ms. Rivera made it to shore,” Sgt. Kevin Donoghue instructed reporters. “He gave sufficient info to conclude that his mom by no means made it again on board.”
Video proof recovered from the dock confirmed that Rivera and her son have been the one two aboard the vessel — which was came upon on the water by boat rental staffers.
It’s unclear how lengthy the boat had been unmanned when it was discovered.
There was “one life jacket on board and one on the 4-year-old boy,” Donoghue mentioned, including that Rivera’s purse and ID have been additionally recovered from the boat.
A person who was out on the marina Wednesday described to The Solar how the staff discovered Josey asleep shortly earlier than 5 p.m. and “fed him, comforted him and saved him joyful” till his family arrived.
“Josey was asleep on the boat wearing a life jacket but Naya’s jacket was sitting on the seat,” mentioned the witness, who was not named within the report.
“Anybody 18 or over it’s as much as them in the event that they have been a jacket or not, but it needs to be on the boat,” he famous.
The person added: “Josey didn’t appear upset, he’s possibly a little too younger to know what was occurring.”
He’s now within the care of his household and doing “pretty much as good as may be anticipated,” authorities mentioned.
In the meantime, the seek for his mother’s physique continues with a number of dive groups, half a dozen boats and helicopters from the Sheriff’s Division and Coast Guard, combing the northern half of the lake “hoping to seek out any clues or proof of her disappearance,” Donoghue mentioned.
“The main focus of our search efforts are within the water proper now,” he added. “We’re going to do every part we will to seek out her.
It wasn’t Rivera’s first day trip on the lake — the place swimming is permitted — but it’s unclear if she’d been boating there along with her son beforehand.
There isn’t any robust undercurrent on the physique of the water, although it’s temperature can someday dip to the purpose of probably inflicting hypothermia, Donoghue mentioned, including he didn’t know if that was the case right here.
The lake’s poor visibility can also be impacting the search, as is the truth that investigators don’t know precisely the place within the water Rivera went lacking.
“If the physique is entangled in one thing contained in the water, it might by no means come up,” Donoghue mentioned.
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