A boy and a girl drowned in Lake Hughes and authorities Tuesday are investigating the circumstances surrounding their deaths.
Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau detectives responded at 6:55 p.m. Monday to the 43100 block of Lake Hughes Road in the Angeles National Forest, northwest of Palmdale, where the victims were found near a pond, said Ronald Rodil of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.
Both victims were taken to a hospital where the boy was pronounced dead on Monday, Rodil said.
Fox 11 reported the girl died Tuesday morning and that the two were siblings.
The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information about the drowning was asked to call the Sheriff’s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500. Anonymous tips can be called in to Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or submitted online at lacrimestoppers.org.