Photo Credit: Naya Rivera/Instagram
It’s been three days since Glee star Naya Rivera has gone missing and footage of her last moments have just been released. The footage comes from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office where she can be seen leaving her G Wagon with her 4 year old son Josey in an empty parking lot headed to the pontoon boats to go out onto Lake Piru. Dressed in white shorts and a small black backpack the two embarked on the day only for Joey to be found alone on the boat.
At this point it is expected that she didn’t survive and efforts are now focused on finding her body versus rescuing her. In fact, Ventura County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Kevin Donoghue said responders “don’t know” if they’ll even be able to do that. “If the body is entangled in something underneath the water, it may never come up,” he said. And given poor visibility on the lake, search efforts are “complicated.” He added “There’s a lot of trees and plants and such that are under the water that can cause entanglement,” he said, which “makes it unsafe for divers and a complicated search.”
A purse and id of Rivera’s was found on the boat as well as a life jacket but that could have been an extra. “We don’t know if that just meant it was hers or if that was an extra life vest on the boat,” he said. “But seemingly, if she was somehow incapacitated and she had a life jacket, we would find her floating. Clearly, she is not.”
An incident report of the event shows Joey saying that she did not get back into the boat after they both went swimming. “Approximately 100 personnel are participating in the mission on Thursday, including resources from neighboring counties and the United States Coast Guard,” the incident report said, but “difficult conditions have made the recovery operation a very slow process.”
