Posted on 12/05/2006 7:42:08 AM PST by SmithL
GADSDEN, Ala. — A 5-year-old boy who was asleep in the back of a car when it was stolen from the parking lot of an Albertville convenience store was found dead Tuesday morning in a neighboring county, authorities said.
A dispatcher with the Etowah County Sheriff's Department said the body of Geontae Glass was discovered in a rural area. Officials planned to release details at a mid-morning news conference, said the dispatcher, who did not give her name.
An FBI spokesman did not immediately return phone calls, and further details weren't available.
The child was abducted shortly after 6 a.m. Monday from a store in Albertville in Marshall County, about 80 miles northeast of Birmingham.
Authorities said the boy's mother left him asleep in the back seat of her car with the engine running while she went inside a store to buy juice. Witnesses reported seeing a man get out of a pickup truck and get into the vehicle before driving away as someone else drove off in the pickup truck.
Alabama state troopers and Albertville police issued an Amber Alert for the boy, who was last seen in his mother's light blue 1994 Nissan Altima. Overnight lows dipped into the mid-20s.
Troopers announced Tuesday that the Amber Alert was canceled but provided no other details.
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