{"id":421044,"date":"2026-08-01T19:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T19:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421044\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T19:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T19:08:19","slug":"tuolumne-county-sheriff-now-investigating-3-year-olds-death-at-lake-don-pedro-as-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/421044\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuolumne County sheriff now investigating 3-year-old&#8217;s death at Lake Don Pedro as homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tuolumne County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says it is now investigating the death of a 3-year-old Modesto girl at Lake Don Pedro in mid-July as a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>In an update released Friday, the sheriff&#8217;s office confirmed the case has been reclassified but said no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said they are not releasing additional details while the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation stems from an incident on July 18 at Fleming Meadows Lagoon at Lake Don Pedro.<\/p>\n<p>According to the sheriff&#8217;s office, deputies were dispatched around 3:34 p.m. after receiving a 911 call reporting that a missing girl may have drowned.<\/p>\n<p>While deputies were responding, additional callers reported the child had been found and that CPR was underway.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Tuolumne County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Boat Patrol, who were already on the lake conducting routine patrols, responded immediately and took over lifesaving efforts from bystanders until firefighters and paramedics arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Despite continued life-saving efforts by first responders, the girl was pronounced dead before she could be airlifted to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Days after the incident, investigators asked the public for help gathering information about what happened.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office requested photos or videos that may show the child on a raft or boat with other children before the incident, as well as anyone who may have witnessed the child before she was pulled from the water.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tuolumne County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says it is now investigating the death of a 3-year-old Modesto girl at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[15563,121,123,122,14770,27329],"class_list":["post-421044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-modesto-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-stanislaus-county","tag-tuolumne-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}