{"id":238933,"date":"2026-07-09T01:33:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238933\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T01:33:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T01:33:45","slug":"coroner-rules-lake-erie-drownings-of-man-11-year-old-girl-accidental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238933\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner rules Lake Erie drownings of man, 11-year-old girl accidental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CURTICE, Ohio \u2014 An 11-year-old girl and a 38-year-old man both drowned in Lake Erie near a local marina in what officials are calling accidental deaths, the Lucas County Coroner&#8217;s Office announced.<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wtol.com\/assets\/shared-images\/icons\/arrow-circle-down.svg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                            &#13;<br \/>\n                                                This story continues below.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The coroner&#8217;s office confirmed the girl&#8217;s identity officially Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Autopsies conducted by the coroner&#8217;s office confirmed that both individuals drowned.<\/p>\n<p>Following a joint review of the evidence with the Lucas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Deputy Coroner Dr. Dwayne Wolf ruled both deaths accidental.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not released further details regarding the relationship between Ciha and Cunningham or the events leading up to the drownings.<\/p>\n<p>A third person on the boat, Kristen Gerrie, is charged with child endangerment. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtol.com\/article\/news\/local\/woman-charged-in-lake-erie-boating-incident-scheduled-for-monday-court-arraignment\/512-b89d66b5-ff55-4228-96f5-0d09bacc6435\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Gerrie posted a $50,000 surety bond<\/a> Monday morning and is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday. The Lucas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said the charge was upgraded to a felony.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CURTICE, Ohio \u2014 An 11-year-old girl and a 38-year-old man both drowned in Lake Erie near a local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-238933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}