LINDA — A lady was arrested Thursday on suspicion of drowning her two kids, a child and a toddler, in a tub at her Northern California residence, authorities mentioned.
Courtney Williams, 26, was arrested at her residence in Linda after the youngsters’s father referred to as 911 at round 11:45 a.m., the Yuba County Sheriff’s Division introduced.
The person returned residence from work for lunch when his spouse “allegedly advised him that she had harm the youngsters,” the division mentioned in a press release.
He discovered the our bodies of the boys, one 5 months outdated and the opposite age 2 1/2, in a tub stuffed with water, authorities mentioned.
Regardless of efforts to revive them, the youngsters had been declared useless on the scene.
“At the moment, detectives imagine the obvious drowning of the boys was intentional,” the assertion mentioned, though it didn’t point out a attainable motive.
It wasn’t instantly clear whether or not Williams had an legal professional who might communicate on her behalf.
“The tragic lack of 5-month-old Holden and his 2 1/2-year-old brother Ronin reverberates all through our division and into the neighborhood,” Sheriff Wendell Anderson mentioned within the assertion. “There are not any phrases to adequately describe the unhappiness we really feel for the household presently.”
Linda is a small unincorporated neighborhood about 40 miles (64 kilometers) miles north of Sacramento.