'I thought this could be it': Swimmer on cliff diving adventure is forcefully held underwater by stranger as her nephew watches her 'almost' die, police say

An Arizona pistillate was held underwater by her hairsbreadth aft getting into a "disagreement" with a swimmer adjacent "the climbing rope" of a fashionable cliff diving spot, cops say.

"For a infinitesimal … I thought this could beryllium it," the victim, Robyn Soden, told AZ Family successful an interrogation astir the May 24 incidental astatine the Mud Cliffs country on the Salt River, successful the Tonto National Forest and Maricopa County. Video of the Memorial Day play incidental allegedly shows a woman, identified by constabulary arsenic Beyonce Burruel, yanking Soden underwater.

"I was patiently waiting successful enactment … and they conscionable decided they wanted to origin a problem," Soden said. "My nephew and niece were with me, and helium [the nephew] astir watched his aunt die."

Burruel is facing aggravated assault and impeding breathing charges successful transportation with the alleged attack.

"A disagreement occurred adjacent the climbing enactment which is utilized to leap from the cliffs into the river," an apprehension affidavit obtained by Law&Crime says. "[Soden] explained that Beyonce pulled her hairsbreadth and past held her underwater for astir 30 seconds to 1 minute, preventing her from breathing."

Speaking to AZ Family, Soden said, "She shoves my caput underwater. I combat capable to get my caput up. I shriek 'help' and she shoves my caput backmost nether again."

The alleged battle stopped aft a scuba diver stepped successful and pulled Soden distant from Burruel. Soden told AZ Family she believes "there was nary mode she was going to stop" if the diver hadn't intervened.

"[Soden] had accordant ocular injuries including marks astir her cervix and a torn swimsuit," the affidavit says. "While attempting to talk to Beyonce, she began actively warring with deputies."

It yet took 4 deputies to enactment Burruel successful handcuffs, per police. She allegedly claimed that Soden insulted her and Burruel's sister adjacent the climbing rope, which led to the confrontation.