Deputies investigating 3-year-old drowning death on False River
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.
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Sheriff Thibodeaux said the investigation is ongoing.