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Sheriff: 'Glee' Star Naya Rivera Saved Son Before Drowning

Associated Press

   LOS ANGELES - "Glee" star Naya Rivera 's 4-year-old son told
   investigators that his mother, whose body was found in a Southern
   California lake Monday, boosted him back on to the deck of their rented
   boat before he looked back and saw her disappearing under the water,
   authorities said.

   "She must have mustered enough energy to get her son back on the boat,
   but not enough to save herself," Ventura County Sheriff Bill Ayub said
   at a news conference.

   The boy, Josey Hollis Dorsey, was found asleep and alone in a life vest
   on the drifting pontoon boat about three hours after they launched on
   Lake Piru northwest of Los Angeles, setting off a five-day search that
   ended with the discovery of the body of the 33-year-old floating near
   the surface early Monday, authorities said.

   The mother and son had gone swimming, which was permitted in that part
   of the lake, Ayub said. She was not wearing a life vest.

   Authorities believe that Rivera drowned accidentally, and that her body
   was most likely trapped in the vegetation under the lake for several
   days before floating to the top, Ayub said.

   Divers had already thoroughly searched the area where she was
   eventually found, but shrubbery that had grown wildly in the area,
   which was recently dry, must have kept her hidden in the murky water.

   Family members chatted with Rivera via FaceTime when she was on the
   boat, and search crews watched those videos for clues to where she
   might have gone down, Ayub said.

   "It has been an extremely difficult time for her family throughout this
   ordeal," Ayub said "We share in their grief."

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