IDENTIFIED: 15-year-old who drowned in San Joaquin River

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The 15-year-old lad who went missing and drowned successful the San Joaquin River connected Sunday was identified by the Fresno County Coroner's Office connected Tuesday.

Teams searching for the missing teen successful the San Joaquin River recovered a body from the bottommost of the stream connected Monday; the Fresno County Coroner's Office confirmed connected Tuesday greeting that the assemblage was that of 15-year-old Nixon Quinonez Guerra who had gone missing connected Sunday.

Officials accidental Nixon was from San Jose and was successful Firebaugh visiting family.

Deputies accidental connected Sunday astatine astir 4:30 p.m., Firebaugh constabulary responded to the country adjacent 11th and Q Streets down the Firebaugh Rodeo Grounds for a imaginable drowning. Officials accidental Nixon went into the stream to effort to retrieve a shot that went into the h2o but did not resurface. Deputies accidental helium was not wearing a beingness overgarment and did not cognize however to swim.

In an online GoFundMe fundraiser, Quinonez was described by loved ones arsenic "one of the sweetest souls successful the world."