Officials Find Missing Child Dead
POSTED: 10:25 am CST March 23, 2006
UPDATED: 11:25 am CST March 23, 2006
FORT WORTH, Texas -- A missing 5-year-old boy was found dead outside his home Thursday morning.
Johnson County Sheriff Bob Alford said Anthony Turner was discovered in a stock tank behind the boy's house.
Alford said the child apparently rode his bicycle into the tank and drowned.
Search crews using grappling hooks found the boy's body at about 10 a.m. Alford said. He said the hooks pulled the bicycle out of the water.
"And he was still holding on to the bicycle," he said. "The family is naturally very distraught."
Before the discovery, an Amber Alert had been issued for the boy.
A relative had reported that Turner was missing from the area of East Renfro and FM 917 on Wednesday and was last seen riding his red-and-blue bicycle at about 4:30 or 5 p.m.
Law enforcement and volunteers searched for the boy overnight and at one point included the use of helicopters.
So sad. Sigh. At least what I feared had happen, didn't.