RICHMOND, Texas — An 8-year-old boy with autism was found dead Sunday morning after going missing early Saturday morning in Texas, the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office said.
Houston ABC affiliate KTRK saw two Texas EquuSearch personnel recover Ryan Akabusi’s body from a lake in a park near his home around 6:45 a.m. Sunday.
The child’s mother, Ademorowa Oladeinde, told KTRK on Saturday that home surveillance footage showed her son leaving their home in the 19900 block of Kendall Lake Drive in Richmond, a southwestern suburb of Houston, at 4:56 a.m.
Half an hour later, he was caught on her neighbor’s camera walking down the nearby street.
Oladeinde said she later found a pair of his shoes on the street.
A local Amber Alert was issued late Saturday afternoon and Texas EquuSearch organized a search party to comb the Lakemont neighborhood.
The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office cordoned off portions of a retention basin and closed a road while officers conducted a search with sniffer dogs.
FBCSO Captain Dalia Simons said crews used their sonar to detect unusual activity in the lake after dark and waited until sunrise to search near Lakemont Bend and Bright Summer.
She could not confirm how the boy got into the water, but said there was no evidence of foul play.
Investigators will now search for additional surveillance videos in the neighborhood to reconstruct the timeline of Akabusi’s disappearance.
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