Three young sisters were found dead after vanishing from their Texas home while by babysat by a family friend.
Zi’Ariel Robinson Oliver, 9, A’Miyah Hughes, 8, and Te’Mari Robinson Oliver, 5, were reported missing from their small town residence Friday night.
A dive team pulled their bodies from a private pond on a neighboring property early Saturday morning.Their cause of death has not yet been revealed.
Zi’Ariel, A’Miyah and Temari went missing from their Atlanta home, about 200 miles east of Fort Worth, around 10pm on Friday, prompting a multi-agency search for the girls.
A family friend had been watching the trio and their other siblings while their mother, Shommaonique Oliver, was at work.
The babysitter called 911 to report their disappearance.
Officials received reports that the girls were found in a pond near Highway 77 around 2am Saturday.
Police centered their search around the pond after a pair of shoes, bike and other items of clothing were found scattered near and in the water.
‘We located items of clothing around a pond and in a pond,’ Texas Game Warden Shawn Hervey told KSLA Saturday.
‘So, we centered the search around that small body of water, and with the use of divers we were able to recover three victims at approximately 2am.’
Investigators have not reached any conclusions about their deaths and the bodies have been sent for autopsies.
‘We have no idea what the girls were doing there at that hour,’ Cass County Sheriff Larry Rowe stated.
‘Nobody has been accused of anything,’ Rowe said.
