A woman trying to wade across a river died after she stumbled and got swept away, California deputies say.
Just before 11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 24, a man called 911 to say “his mother had just been swept down the Sacramento River,” the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office said in a May 29 Facebook post.
The 66-year-old mother, Jin Yen Lee, of Irvine, was trying to wade across the river “near Hedge Creek Falls, when she lost her footing and was carried downstream,” the man told deputies…