WINSLOW β Authorities say a 17-year-old Navajo girl died after intentionally unclipping from a zipline and dropping into a creek during a high school ROTC exercise in northeastern Arizona.
Navajo County sheriff's Chief Deputy James Molesa say Marisa Trujillo of the Chinle (chin-LEE') area dropped 50 feet into a creek north of Interstate 40 west of Winslow on Saturday.
An autopsy will determine cause of death.
According to Molesa, other students have intentionally dropped into the creek in previous years and that Trujillo said she planned to do it and didn't heed calls from others to not drop.
Molesa says a safety diver who was in the creek was unable to find Trujillo in the murky water.
Divers later found Trujillo's body down 15 to 20 feet in the water.
