Jeff Downing confirmed to The Enquirer that his neighbor and half-sister, Victoria Kennerd, was the woman killed.
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Authorities said Sunday that a family huddled inside the mobile home, but the mother, her daughter and a son were killed.
Our news partner WCPO reports six family members from Ripley, Ohio, located approximately 50 miles southeast of Cincinnati, were washed away by high water from Red Oak Creek in their mobile home.
A creek that flooded during a torrential downpour in southern Ohio swept away a mobile home late Saturday, killing three members of a family of six huddling for safety inside, authorities said.
The father and two surviving sons were rescued about two hours after the disaster, he said. Modesto police spokeswoman Heather Graves said Martin Martinez, 30, of Modesto, was detained in San Jose early Sunday and booked into a Santa Clara County jail on suspicion of murder. The flood swept away a mobile home late Saturday, …
Brown County received about four inches of rain in one hour during the Saturday night thunderstorms, according to Owens.
“They were really good parents”, Downing told The Cincinnati Enquirer. ‘There was nothing they could do.’.
She said at least two mobile homes were destroyed and flood damage was reported to at least five other homes. The survivors were taken to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. One boy was found in a tree.
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Owens said the rain also flooded streets in nearby Georgetown. The surviving boy was reported to have told his uncle that they were gathered together in the bathroom of their mobile home as the creek began to rise. The National Weather Service has issued flash flood warning for much of central and southwest Ohio, including Brown County, until Sunday midnight.
