KDRV Staff
 
May 25, 2009
 
NEAR TENNANT, Ca. - Siskiyou County sheriffs say a three-year-old boy found dead in a Northern California Creek likely drowned.
 
Sheriffs received a report Sunday afternoon that the boy was missing from his family's camp about two miles south of Tennant. Sheriff's deputies, U.S. forest rangers, firefighters, California Highway Patrol, and volunteers conducted a search of Antelope Creek.
 
A firefighter found the body of Gabriel Coates tangled in tree limbs that had fallen across the creek. Coates was pronounced dead on the scene. The exact cause of death is unknown at this time.