Lane Graves, 2-Year-Old Boy, Dragged by Alligator, Confirmed Dead

A law enforcement officer searches the Seven Seas Lagoon outside the Grand Floridian Resort & Spa on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., after a two-year-old toddler was dragged into the lake by an alligator. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

The 2-year-old boy who was dragged by an alligator on Tuesday night, sparking a widespread search, at a Disney World resort was killed by the gator.

The family of the boy was notified by police.

Members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office dive team “located the remains” of the boy, identified as 2-year-old Lane Graves. “The child is dead ... [and] drowned by the alligator,” Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said in a press conference on Wednesday afternoon.

The parents, he said, are Matt and Melissa Graves from Elkhorn, Nebraska.

Law enforcement officials search the Seven Seas Lagoon outside the Grand Floridian Resort & Spa on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, after a 2-year-old toddler was dragged into the lake by an alligator. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

The remains were recovered from the water at 3:30 p.m. The “body was turned over to the Orange County Medical Examiner” for an autopsy.

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