RedactedNarrative: On 7/4/2017, officers with the Corrales Police Department were called to the Rio Grande River near an area called North Beach.  When rescuers arrived they found several people on a sand bar adjacent to the North Beach and others clinging to a fallen tree in the river.  Witnesses stated they could not find the victim after her kayak capsized and she may have gotten caught in a fallen tree in the river.  After a brief search, the victim was located about 0.2 miles downstream floating face down.  The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.  All other parties were rescued from the river.
  
  According to Corrales Police report # 02-17-219, 7 people departed the Hwy 550 Bridge over the Rio Grande River in Rio Rancho NM.  While kayaking downstream, the kayak occupied by the victim, and two others got into the current on the west side of the river, turned sideways, and then capsized when it hit a sandbar.  Two people were able to get onto the sandbar.  Subject1 was in a separate kayak and stated that he tried to turn the victim's kayak back over when she did not immediately resurface.  Once the kayak was turned back over, the victim was not found.  Subject1 and group searched the area for several minutes trying to locate the victim.  He believed the victim was trapped in a nearby underwater tree.  There were 3 kayaks and 7 people in the group at the time of the incident.  The two other occupants of the victim's kayak were rescued from the sand bar, and the 4 other members of the group were rescued from a fallen tree in the river.  No injuries were reported by the surviving members of the party.
  
  Corrales Officer and Corrales Fireman searched the river bank by vehicle and found the victim floating face down in the shallows of the river near mile marker 6.4.  Officer described the victim as a female wearing a shirt, dark colored shorts and no apparent PFD.  Corrales Fire Department personnel removed the victim from the water and the scene was secured until OMI investigator arrived and pronounced the time of death at 1400 hrs.  The victim's body was transported to the Office of Medical Investigator.
  
  No enforcement action was taken related to this incident.
  
  Corrales Police Report # 02-17-219 attached and the OMI report is pending.
  
  End of report.
  