A new 911 call is revealing the moments after an Oklahoma pediatrician said she found her 4-year-old daughter at the bottom of the pool in El Portal last year in an incident that has the mother facing a murder charge.
Dr. Neha Gupta is accused of killing her daughter, 4-year-old Aria Talathi, who was found dead at a rental home on Northwest 90th Street back on June 27, 2025.
According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, Gupta told investigators her daughter got out of the home and fell into the pool in the middle of the night.
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The pediatrician and her daughter were visiting from Oklahoma.
Gupta can be heard trying to explain what happened in a new 911 call obtained by NBC6 on Monday.
“I tried to get her out,” she tells the dispatcher. “We were sleeping and I heard some noise. She was in the pool, I tried to save her but I don’t know how to swim. She went down in the pool.”
“Is anyone able to get her out?” the dispatcher responds.
“No, it’s just both of us here…It’s just me,” Gupta says. “I tried my best to get her out.”
“Is she awake, yes or no?” the dispatcher asks later in the call.
“No, she’s at the bottom of the pool,” Gupta says. “She’s not moving.”
“Is there like a stick, like a pool stick, like if you’re cleaning out the pool?” the dispatcher asks. “You need to try to get her out of the water.”
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A 4-year-old girl died in El Portal on June 27, 2025.
The dispatcher tells Gupta to try to pull her out, and Gupta asks about when paramedics will arrive.
“They’re on the way but you need to try to help her, find any way you can to try to get her out,” the dispatcher tells her.
Gupta is heard struggling for a few moments before speaking again with the dispatcher.
“I found a stick but I can’t move her, what do I do?” Gupta asks.
“What side of the pool is she on, is she on the three feet side, is she in the six feet, what part?” the dispatcher asks.
“I think it’s nine feet, I don’t know how deep…” Gupta says.
“Ok, you need to try to get her out ma’am,” the dispatcher says again.
“Yeah, I’m trying,” Gupta responds.
“Do you know how long she’s been inside the pool?” the dispatcher asks.
“I don’t know,” Gupta says. “I’m going to go in to try to get her.”
Gupta appears to be struggling in the water, and the dispatcher again asks if she can get something to move her daughter to the shallow end.
Moments later, police officers arrive and Gupta goes to open the door for them. The officers are heard getting her daughter out of the water.
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Police respond to a home in El Portal to investigate the death of a 4-year-old girl on June 27, 2025.
Gupta had returned to Oklahoma but was later arrested and brought back to Miami-Dade on a murder charge. It was later changed to a manslaughter charge then upgraded again to second-degree murder.
An arrest warrant said there was no indication the girl drowned and said evidence suggests she was smothered to death, then placed in the pool.
Gupta’s attorney has maintained that the daughter’s death was an accident and said investigators “rushed to judgment” in arresting her.
“Our position from day one has been that Dr. Gupta did not intentionally harm her child, that her child tragically got out of the locked door and fell into the pool, accidentally,” defense attorney Michael Mirer said last year.
Gupta, 37, remains behind bars in Miami-Dade without bond while she awaits trial.