The Office of the Ventura County Sheriff has released CCTV video showing Glee actress Naya Rivera and her four-year – old son Josey arriving at Lake Piru and riding a boat before she disappears.
“This is the recording from the security camera at the boat launch when Naya Rivera and her son arrived to rent a pontoon boat at Lake Piru. The video will show them departing the dock and travel north in the lake,” the Ventura County Sheriff’s office said in a statement.
Rivera and her son Josey arriving at the Lake in her SUV can be seen in the video. The actress parked her SUV, and walked behind her to the dock with her son Josey.
When they head for the pontoon to find the boat Naya had hired for the day, one of the pontoon boats can be seen pulling away from the dock and handing them the keys for rent before they embarked on the voyage.
Naya went missing on Wednesday, July 8, as she went on the boat trip with her 4-year-old son, Josey Dorsey.
Department of the Ventura County Sheriff said they started looking for her at the reservoir on Wednesday at around 1 pm after she and her son failed to return a rented boat to the facilities after the three hours she paid for expired. As the workers reached the boat they realized that her son was floating alone on the boat.
Kevin Donoghue, sergeant at the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, said at a press conference on Thursday that Naya Rivera’s 4-year-old son, who was found alone on the boat in the middle of the lake, had given the investigators enough details to allow them “conclude that his mother never made it out of the water.”
He said he told police that his mum “jumped into the water but didn’t come back up.”
Authorities have now converted the search and rescue operation into a recovery operation because they believe the actress might have lost her life in the lake.
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