Naya Rivera, a singer and actor who played a gay cheerleader on the hit TV musical comedy Glee, was found dead on Monday in a Southern California Lake. She was 33.
Rivera’s body was discovered six days after she disappeared on Lake Piru, where her son, Josey, was found on July 8, alone on a boat the two had rented, the Ventura Country Sheriff’s office said. The Sheriff’s office confirmed that the body was Rivera’s.
According to the police working on Rivera’s case, the actor died trying to save her son.
Rivera’s son, Josey Hollis Dorsey told the police that after the two went swimming. Rivera pushed him into the boat but when he turned around to see her, she had disappeared underwater.
The sheriff, Bill Ayub said during a conference that Rivera gathered enough energy to help her son, but not to save herself. The cops believe that the actor had been trapped by vegetation beneath the surface of the lake, which is why it took six days to find her.
Family members chatted with Rivera via FaceTime when she was on the boat, and search crews watched those videos for clues to where she might have gone down, Ayub said ” It has been an extremely difficult time for her family throughout this ordeal.” “We share their grief” he added.
Rivera’s untimely and tragic demise has sent shock waves around the world. The fact that the actor had died while trying to save her son was what broke her fans’ heart.
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