An autopsy confirmed a Tallulah girl drowned two weeks ago after falling from a boat into a borrow pit across the Mississippi River from Vicksburg, a Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries official said.

“Generally, that’s what we would expect, but we didn’t want to make any assumptions until we got the report,” said Capt. Alan Bankston, regional supervisor.

On July 21, Jacqueline Foster, 17, had been fishing with her father, Wesley Crumpton of Tallulah, before she accidentally fell into the water from a 14-foot aluminum boat at about 8 p.m., Bankston said.

The Madison Parish Sheriff’s Office, the Warren County Sheriff’s Office, the Delta Marshal’s Office and the LDWF responded. Her body was pulled from the water around 2 the next morning. Madison Parish’s coroner, Dr. Thomas Neuman, who was called to the scene just after Jacqueline’s body was found, said she had undergone a tracheotomy, a procedure that inhibited her ability to close her airway.