Body found in search of missing Glee actress Naya Rivera

LOS ANGELES — A body recovered from a lake in California is that of missing “Glee” actress Naya Rivera, officials said on Monday.

E! News, the Ventura County Medical Examiner confirmed the identity of Naya's body and has determined her cause of death was drowning and the manner of death was an accident. "The autopsy findings are consistent with a drowning and the condition of the body is consistent with the time that she was submerged," the report stated.

Update:  A body has been found at Lake Piru this morning where former “Glee” actress Naya Rivera disappeared.  The Ventura Sheriff said the body was found this morning and a recovery is in progress.

Glee actress Naya Rivera's body was found in Lake Piru, the Ventura Sheriff's Department confirmed in its press conference given today. Sheriff Bill Ayub shared details with reporters on what their investigation revealed, including the heartbreaking news that Rivera appeared to have sacrificed her life to help her four-year-old son Josey get back in the pontoon boat they rented.

A body has been found at the lake where former “Glee” star Naya Rivera went missing in Southern California last week.

A body was recovered Monday at Lake Piru in Southern California, the site where Glee actress Naya Rivera went missing last Wednesday while boating with her 4-year-old son.

Naya Rivera went missing, the Ventura County Sheriff's Office has said. The star was presumed dead after her four-year-old son was found floating alone on a boat on Lake Piru in California on Wednesday afternoon.

LOS ANGELES — A body has been found at the site where authorities were searching for missing “Glee” actress Naya Rivera, the Ventura, California, County Sheriff’s office said on Twitter on Monday.A body has been found at Lake Piru this morning. The recovery is in progress.

A body has been found at the California lake where former Glee actress Naya Rivera went missing, police have said.

former Glee star Naya Rivera went missing.

Police confirmed Monday that they have found a body as the search for missing "Glee" actress Naya Rivera at a California lake continues. Ventura police said in a tweet on Monday, "A body has been found at Lake Piru this morning.The recovery is in progress.

A body has been found at Lake Piru in California where Naya Rivera went missing on Wednesday (July 8).

Rebecca Rubin News Editor, OnlineVentura County Sheriff’s Department have uncovered a body at Lake Piru in California, the site where actress Naya Rivera went missing last week.The “Glee” star is presumed to be have drowned after a swimming accident last Wednesday. The Ventura Sheriff’s office have not identified the body yet, but will hold a press conference on Monday at 2 p.m.

Naya Rivera’s disappearance while boating on Lake Piru outside Los Angeles this week is just the latest in a string of tragedies that have befallen Glee, the popular musical-comedy that ran from 2009 to 2015.

Heather Morris has offered to help authorities search for her Glee costar Naya Rivera as the investigation continues to locate the missing actress.“My name is Heather Morris, I’m Nayas close friend and co-worker, and I’m trying to conduct an on-foot search and rescue mission along with a small group of friends at Lake Piru,” the Spring Breakers star, 33, tweeted on Saturday, July 12.

People  that after speaking with Josey, they have found no evidence as to why the actress would have taken her own life. "We interviewed her son and there was nothing that we learned from her son that would have suggested that this was suicide," he said."Everything that we've learned so far leads to this being some sort of water recreational accident."To say definitively what actually happened, we really can’t say.

The search for former Glee star Naya Rivera continues, 24 hours since the actress was reported missing after disappearing during a boating trip with her four-year-old son.