THE search to find “Glee” TV show star Naya Rivera in a Southern California lake ended Saturday without any results, authorities said. The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office said in a tweet Saturday night that the search of Lake Piru will resume Sunday. Authorities said Thursday they believe Rivera, 33, drowned in the lake. Her 4-year-old son was found alone in a rented boat. Surveillance video showed Rivera and her son parking and entering the boat dock in the recreation area at the lake 89 kilometers northwest of downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. She had experience boating on the lake. About three hours later, the man who rented them the pontoon boat found the boy alone on it wearing a life vest. The boy told investigators he and his mother had gone swimming, and he had gotten back on the boat but she hadn’t. An adult life vest was found in the boat, along with Rivera’s identification, and her car was still in the parking lot. On Thursday, authorities said they believed she had accidentally drowned, and the search had shifted from an effort to rescue Rivera to an attempt to find her body. Search teams were focusing on the north end of the lake, known as the Narrows, where the boy was found, and the east side, where wind patterns suggest it might have been earlier. The boy, Rivera’s son with actor Ryan Dorsey, was safe and healthy and with family members, authorities said. The couple divorced in 2018. The last tweet on Rivera’s account, from Tuesday, read “just the two of us” along with a photo of her and her son. Rivera began acting at a young age, but she rose to national attention playing a lesbian teen on “Glee,” which aired from 2009 until 2015 on Fox. Rivera played singing cheerleader Santana Lopez for six seasons on the show. If she is declared dead, she will become the third major cast member from the show to die in their 30s. Cory Monteith, one of the show’s leads, died at 31 in 2013 from a toxic mix of alcohol and heroin. And co-star Mark Salling, who Rivera dated at one point, killed himself in 2018 at age 35 after pleading guilty to child pornography charges. (SD-Agencies) |