15-year-old boy drowns while trying to get ball from river in Fresno County, California

Investigators say 15-year-old Nixon Guerra went into the San Joaquin River to retrieve a ball Sunday afternoon, but the swift current took him away. Nixon is the 9th person to drown in our area this summer. Several of the others did not know how to swim either, which is preventable.

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