Calif. Mother Drowns After Dog Pulls Her Into a River [Video]

A family is mourning the loss of their mother after the California woman and her dog drowned during an outing with friends over the weekend. 

A press release shared by the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday, Aug. 18, identified the deceased as 63-year-old Mary Marshall of Menifee, Calif. in Riverside County.  

Around 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 17, “Fresno County Sheriff’s dispatchers received an emergency call regarding a woman who had fallen into the Kings River and had not resurfaced,” police said.

After searching the area of S. Rio Vista and E. Vino Avenues in Reedley for more than two hours, deputies with the boating and dive units recovered the body of Marshall, a retired member of the U.S. Marine Corps., and her German Shepherd. 

“Neither of them was wearing a life jacket,” authorities said.

The sheriff’s office said Marshall was part of a group of a dozen friends who would visit the Kings …