LOCAL : Foul Play Not Suspected in Death
Foul play is not suspected at this time in the death of a 36-year-old woman whose body was found at the bottom of a back-yard swimming pool in El Toro Thursday night, the Orange County Sheriff-Coroner’s Department reported today.
Lt. Richard Olson said coroner’s investigators have not found any suspicious circumstances so far in the death of Martha Munoz-Lemus of Santa Ana, a housekeeper at a home in the 25000 block Owens Lake Circle. An autopsy is pending.
About 6 p.m. Thursday, a neighbor spotted Munoz-Lemus in the pool behind the house and placed a 911 emergency call. Paramedics could not revive her and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Meanwhile, Randi Newkirk, a 5-year-old girl who was found face down on the bottom of her grandparent’s swimming pool in Fullerton on Wednesday, remains in critical condition at Childrens Hospital of Orange County in Orange. Her 3-year-old sister, Robyn, who also was pulled from the pool, is reported in good condition and might be released to go home today.
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