Days after an AMBER Alert was issued for 4-year-old Raul Gonzalez Johnson of North Carolina, officials found a body in a pond near where the boy went missing.
A medical examiner is working to confirm the identity of the body and also cause of death.
Officials said that Raul left home while his grandfather was looking after him. Raul reportedly went to a neighbors house where he was told to go back home.
The boy’s grandfather called his mother at 11 a.m. Wednesday saying that Raul had gone missing.
Raul was last seen near his Scotland County home walking on Village Drive towards Crestline Road in Laurinburg.
The child was seen wearing a T-shirt with tiger stripes and pajama pants with rocket ships on them.
“I told him to call 911,” she said, with tears in her eyes. “I thought maybe he was just hiding because he likes to hide, but he never stays gone this long, he always comes back. If I holler for him he comes back and this time he didn’t come back.”
“I just don’t know if somebody took him or if he’s lost in the woods or if something happened to him in the water,” the mother said. “I don’t know, I just want him home.”
Earlier this week, an AMBER Alert had been issued for North Carolina.
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