Lakeway Police continue their investigation into the drowning death of a 9-year old girl at Lake Travis.

The victim was with her mother and younger brother at Lakeway City Park around 11:20 Friday morning.

Paramedics say the mother can't swim and tried in vain for 15-minutes to save her daughter.

When police and paramedics showed up at the scene they say the little girl had been underwater for about 20-minutes.

"The guys did not want to give up I don't think anybody did and they worked her right to as they got on the Starflight, even when she got on Starflight they still continued to work her even when they got all the way to the hospital" says Dale Faust with Lake Travis Fire & Rescue.

The event was especially traumatic for many of the paramedics and officers who tried in vain to revive the girl, many of whom have children of their own.

Johnnie Hall with Travis County E.M.S. told KVUE "all the interventions that we had available to us we tried and just at that time she wasn't responding well to that...so it was hard on them you, everybody was feeling down after this nobody really wanted to talk about it at first."

Later on Friday afternoon two of the drowning victim's teachers brought flowers to throw into the portion of the lake where the 9-year old drowned.

"Sometimes the only thing we can think is that sometimes God takes the most beautiful and rare flower and takes them home because she was pure sunshine and light" says Linda Dietz, the victim's 3rd grade teacher.

The 9-year old's name was not being released Friday evening.

She would have started the 4th grade at Bee Caves Elementary a week from Monday.