Sonora, CA – The drowning of a 3-year-old Modesto girl at the Fleming Meadows Lagoon at Lake Don Pedro is being treated as a homicide, according to Tuolumne County Sheriff David Vasquez.
The sheriff made that statement at Tuesday’s Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors meeting.
“That is an active investigation right now. We are treating it as a homicide. We don’t have all of the logistics and all this information from all the people who are around there. We’re still gathering that information, which is a common protocol for us to do whenever there’s a death involving a child,” Sheriff Vasquez added. “It really shook the pillars of this entire community. We saw a lot of narratives on social media. Folks are quick to judge, and emotions run high whenever we talk about things that seem to be preventable. Trust that your sheriff’s office will conduct a thorough investigation, and when the time is appropriate, we will release what is applicable to release to the public.”…