Sadly, the Rains County Sheriff’s Office has confirmed that the recently recovered 5-year-old that was reported missing in Rains County on Thursday is deceased.
On Thursday at approximately 6:10 pm Rains County Sheriff's Office responded to a call for service. The call for service was in regards to a missing five year old male child, from a residence located on FM 2737.
Information given by Rains County Sheriff's Office dispatch: "Missing five year old, four foot tall, non-verbal autistic male. Last seen wearing a teal shirt with Dr. Seuss character print."
When law enforcement arrived, an incident command was activated and a search was started. As the search continued more agencies arrived to assist.
At approximately 8:57 pm the search ended. A male child matching the description had been recovered in a pond on the property. The child was later identified as the missing child.
Officials have ordered an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
The Rains County Sheriff's Office posted the following on their facebook page:
Rains County Sheriff's Office would sincerely like to thank all agencies and volunteers from incident on FM 2737 last night.
- East Tawakoni P.D.
- Point P.D.
- Emory P.D
- Texas DPS Air 101
- Texas DPS
- Hunt County Sheriff's Office
- Point F.D.
- East Tawakoni F.D.
- Emory F.D.
- Cash F.D. Water rescue team
- Hopkins County EMS
- Rains County Sheriff's Office Chaplin
- Rains County Sheriff's Office communications center
- Rains County Sheriff's Office Deputies.
- The Rains County Deputies that were off and came into either assit with the search or answer other calls in our county.
- All private citizens that arrived to help expand our search efforts.
Our hearts are heavy regarding the result of yesterday evenings call for service. There are no words that I can convey to help all that were involved directly or indirectly in this incident.
My heart goes out to the family and all Rains County Citizens that this has affected.
For any that were involved in this incident and may need help with the process, today or the coming days, please reach out to the Rains County Sheriff's Office we do have resources that can help.
