Rosary continues for young girl, 7

Officials at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Colusa on Wednesday urged everyone in town to keep the Meraz family in their thoughts after the tragic death of Kateri Meraz.

The 7-year-old girl was hit on the head Tuesday by a falling television as she tried to move the cart on which it was sitting so she and her brother could see the screen better.

"Please continue to keep the Meraz family in your prayers," the Rev. Arbel Cabasagan said in a statement released Wednesday.

Meraz is the daughter of Dr. Antonio and Rocio Meraz.

An autopsy Tuesday revealed the cause of death as blunt force head trauma, the Colusa County Coroner's Office reported.

It has been ruled an accidental death.

Meraz was at the Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church rectory where her mother is a volunteer.

She and her brother were in what was described as a conference room watching television.

The young girl apparently was trying to turn the TV so she and her brother could better see the screen when the TV fell from the cart and struck her in the head, the police reported.

The incident occurred about 1 p.m.

Emergency personnel found the girl unconscious with "severe head trauma," a statement released by interim Colusa police Chief Ross Stark said. She was taken to Colusa Regional Medical Center where she was later pronounced dead.

"It is very sad," Stark said.

She is the second child to die in tragic and unusual circumstances in the last two months in Colusa.

On April 22, a 3-year-old boy, who fell out of an elevated playhouse at his home, died during surgery to repair an injury to his foot.

The boy did not come out of anesthesia.