MDSO: Oklahoma pediatrician faces murder charge after 4-year-old daughter drowns in El Portal pool

EL PORTAL, Fla. – A pediatrician from Oklahoma has been arrested and is facing a first-degree execution complaint successful transportation with the drowning decease of her 4-year-old daughter, detectives with the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office confirmed Wednesday.

Detectives with MDSO’s Homicide Bureau said they arrested Dr. Neha Gupta, the child’s mother, aft a weeks-long probe into the incident, which occurred successful the aboriginal greeting hours of June 27 astatine a short-term rental location successful El Portal.

Authorities said Gupta and her daughter, Aria Talathi, were visiting South Florida from Oklahoma City.

According to investigators, azygous officers from the El Portal Police Department were dispatched astir 3:40 a.m. to a location successful the 100 artifact of Northwest 90th Street pursuing a 911 telephone astir a kid drowning successful a residential pool.

Authorities said archetypal responders recovered Aria unresponsive successful the water. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue unit transported her to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, wherever she was pronounced dead.

“The information that a 4-year-old astatine 3 o’clock successful the greeting would beryllium extracurricular is, to me, a small spot alarming,” a neighbour identified lone arsenic Barbra told Local 10 News connected the greeting of the incident.

Initially, Aria’s decease was described by her mother’s attorney, Richard Cooper, arsenic a “horrible accident.”

Cooper told reporters the household had been vacationing successful South Florida and were staying successful a rental home.

“I’ve been with her the full greeting — she is precise sad, precise distraught,” Cooper said of Gupta astatine the time.

But MDSO detectives aboriginal took implicit the lawsuit from El Portal police, and done what officials described arsenic “investigative means and consultation with the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office,” an apprehension warrant was issued for Gupta connected a complaint of first-degree murder.

Investigators traveled to Oklahoma City, where, with assistance from the Oklahoma City Police Department’s Homicide Unit and the U.S. Marshals Service, they located and arrested Gupta.

She is presently awaiting extradition to Miami-Dade County. No apprehension affidavit oregon booking photograph were instantly available.

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