Searchers found the drowned body of a 2-year-old Wednesday, three miles (4.8 kilometers) downstream from where he was swept from his mother during a flash flood, according to The Associated Press. Authorities believed the boy was Jose Matthew Jauregui Jr., Fire Department spokesman Phil Champagne said. The mother, identified by relatives as Elsha Guel, and the boy had been engulfed by floodwaters from a sudden storm while they were on a walk. Guel, found clinging to a concrete barrier in the river, released her grip and slipped away from a rescuer when told her son had not been found, Champagne said. She was pulled from the river about 100 yards (91.4 meters) downstream and hospitalized. Police had also believed a teenager or young man drowned in a swollen creek. An officer had jumped into the water in a rescue attempt but could not reach him, authorities said.
