Washington state 1-year-old orphaned after pregnant mom, dad both found dead on Hawaii vacation
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Ilya Tsaruk and Sophia Tsaruk from Snohomish, Washington, were believed to have been swimming or snorkeling in Maui when they drowned, according to officials.
Rescuers arrived at the scene around noon after the Maui Fire Department received a report of "swimmers/snorkelers in distress." Mollie Markowitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital. Email tips to mollie.markowitz@fox.com. She joined Fox in 2019 and made her way from producing live news coverage to true-crime documentaries at Fox Nation. She is passionate about victim advocacy and has interviewed Ted Bundy survivors, the children of notorious serial killers, survivor Lisa McVey, members of law enforcement and families impacted by traumatic crime.Currently, she covers national crime stories for Fox News Digital. You can follow Mollie on LinkedIn.
They first found the pregnant mother unresponsive in the water approximately 100 to 150 yards from shore and pulled her from the water. Rescuers went back in the water, where they found her husband on the ocean floor.