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PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Search continues for missing 8-year-old in Sherman
An 8-year-old girl's family crashed into a creek on Christmas Eve in Sherman. Emergency crews are still searching for the girl in the water and shorelines. Four of the six family members in the SUV survived.
SHERMAN, Texas - A new search and rescue organization is joining the effort to find an 8-year-old girl who has been missing since her family’s SUV crashed in Sherman on Christmas Eve.
Searching for Clara Robinson
Clara Robinson
What's New:
Sherman police said Texas Equusearch is now helping to find 8-year-old Clara Robinson.
The organization is the same one that has gotten involved in other high-profile searches in Texas, including the search for Christina Morris in Collin County, Vanessa Guillen near Fort Hood, and Maleah Davis near Houston.
"We are incredibly appreciative of them and their willingness to help us find Clara. We all have the same goal," the Sherman Police Department said.
Police said they have been searching for the little girl daily since Dec. 24. It was only paused for one day last week because of the winter weather.
Search teams are now focused on various debris piles.
8-year-old missing after Christmas Eve crash
The backstory:
Clara Robinson and her family crashed on southbound U.S. Highway 75 in Sherman while driving from Oklahoma to McKinney.
Police believe the family’s SUV hydroplaned because of heavy rain. They landed in a flooded drainage ditch.
Four of the six family members were rescued.
Will Robinson, Clara’s father, died while trying to save his two daughters.
Father died trying to rescue daughters after Sherman crash, officials say
The search continues for 8-year-old Clara Robinson after she was swept away by floodwaters following a crash.
First responders revived his 5-year-old daughter, but there is still no sign of the 8-year-old.
His body was found 2.5 miles downstream from the initial crash site.
The Robinson Family
Will and Clara Robinson
The four rescued members of the Robinson family are now back home in Durant, Oklahoma.
Will Robinson was a girls’ basketball coach at Durant High School.
What they're saying:
His players said they would remember him for his patience and encouragement.
"We would play a game and we would lose and the way he would talk to us in the locker room afterward, you would think that we'd won," Rachel Cordell said. "He was just always so encouraging and uplifting and he wasn't afraid to tell you what you could do to get better."
They also said he had an incredible bond with Clara, who often went by C.J.
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Players remember coach who died trying to rescue daughter
Current and former players of a high school girls basketball coach who died in Sherman, Texas while trying to rescue his daughters remember him for being positive and uplifting. They say he would've done anything to save his daughters.
"They were absolutely two peas in a pod," Emeri Morse said. "They were at practice, always together, and C.J. would just run up to him or ask for snacks."
"Everyone has rallied together to love and support both the Robinson family and all the first responders who have been involved in this search. Your encouragement and engagement these past two and half weeks is appreciated and has served as a motivator for all of us," the Sherman Police Department said in a recent update. "Please continue to keep the Robinson family in your thoughts and prayers. Above everything else, they come first."
The Source: The information in this story comes from the Sherman Police Department and past news coverage.