POINTE COUPEE PARISH - Deputies are investigating after a three-year-old girl drowned in False River on Thursday. 

Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff Rene Thibodeaux a three-year-old girl went missing along Island Road in Ventress just before 8 p.m. Thursday.

Deputies and multiple crews of firefighters started searching for the girl, who was found unresponsive in the water near a pier on False River around dusk. She was taken by AirMed to a hospital in Baton Rouge, where she was pronounced dead. 

Sheriff Thibodeaux said the investigation is ongoing.