Sunday, January 25, 2009

Death Investigation Continues

The Collier County Sheriff’s Office is continuing to investigate the deaths of two East Naples children Saturday.

The Collier County Medical Examiner’s Office conducted autopsies Sunday on the bodies of 4-year-old Lillina Herrera and her brother, 5-year-old Ethan Herrera. Results of those autopsies are pending.

Deputies were called to the family’s 7811 Regal Heron Circle home in the Blue Heron condominium complex at 11:45 a.m. Saturday. Witnesses said the children’s mother, Susan Herrera, 39, had discovered them unresponsive in a storage trunk.

Emergency personnel conducted CPR and the children were transported to Physician’s Regional Medical Center on Collier Boulevard, where they were pronounced dead.