“We still don’t know why my niece was the only one who didn’t get out,” Cesar Ontiveros tells PEOPLE of Lupita Zúñiga Ontiveros
NEED TO KNOW
- The body of Lupita Zúñiga Ontiveros, 21, was officially identified after over a week of searching
- The young mom was out with friends when she was thrown from a dune buggy into a California canal last month
- Her family is still searching for answers about her death and has commissioned a second autopsy
A heartbroken family has been given a small bit of closure after the body of 21-year-old mom Lupita Zúñiga Ontiveros was found following a dune buggy crash that threw her and three others into the water.
“We still don’t know why my niece was the only one who didn’t get out,” her uncle Cesar Ontiveros tells PEOPLE. “They say it is under investigation, but they don’t really tell us anything.”
According to the Merced County Sheriff’s Office, around 10:15 a.m. local time on Feb. 8 they received a report of a body located in a canal about seven miles from the site where Lupita was last seen near the Central California town of Gustine…