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More details are coming to airy successful the lawsuit of teenager Kiely Rodni.
The 16-year-old went missing connected the nighttime of Aug. 16 connected her mode location from a precocious schoolhouse graduation enactment adjacent Truckee, Calif. A car was recovered submerged successful the Prosser Creek Reservoir and the assemblage wrong it was positively identified to beryllium the missing teen on Aug. 21, constabulary said successful a property conference, as E! News antecedently reported.
Now, the Nevada County, Calif. coroner's office has released the young girl's origin of death.
In the authoritative documents obtained by E! News connected Oct. 13, the coroner's bureau revealed that she "drowned successful water portion successful her vehicle." Her mode of decease was ruled accidental.
Rodni was past heard from astir 12:30am connected the time she went missing erstwhile she texted her mother, Lindsey Rodni-Nieman, to fto her cognize she was connected her mode home, according to authorities. When she failed to arrive, the authorities were contacted and a hunt began to find her.
It took much than 2 weeks to find Kiely.
The radical Adventures With Purpose, a Search & Recovery Dive Team dedicated to helping families find missing loved ones, found the submerged car successful Prosser Creek Reservoir adjacent Truckee, Calif.
The car was located not acold from the campground wherever the enactment Kiely attending took place.
Placer County Sherrif's Department
Adventures With Purpose released a statement erstwhile Kiely's assemblage was identified, saying, "Please support the Rodni household successful your thoughts and prayers arsenic we are. Hug your loved ones a small tighter and instrumentality the clip arsenic you ne'er cognize erstwhile it's your past accidental to bash so."
Kiely's household aboriginal celebrated her beingness successful a statement, per the Associated Press. "While we judge this sadness formed nether death's shadow," they said, "the rising prima shines airy upon us, reminding america not to mourn our loss, but to observe Kiely's tone and the acquisition that we each received successful knowing her."
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