BOSTON — An 8-year-old boy who went missing from a summer day camp at a Boston beach has been found dead in the water.
Kyzr Willis was reported missing around 3 p.m. Tuesday from the city-run camp at Carson Beach in the city’s South Boston neighborhood. He was found dead around 7 p.m.
Police say the child wandered off from the L Street Bathhouse. The reason he left remains unclear.
The bathhouse will remain closed while police continue to investigate.
The U.S. Coast Guard, state police, Boston police and Quincy police all assisted in the search.
Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh released a statement Tuesday night saying that he will be working closely with the Boston Centers for Youth and Families and Boston police to determine exactly what happened.
“He wasn’t the type of person who would just walk away with anybody,” Kyzr’s aunt, Janice Green, told the Boston Herald. “My biggest thing is: Where were the staff? Who was watching him?”
Said La-Kansa Sitcheron, his cousin, told the paper: “There’s a lot of unanswered questions. How did this 7-year-old end up where he was? He wasn’t the type of child to wander off, especially with his (9-year-old) brother being there. If he did leave, someone should have seen him.”
Epoch Times contributed to this report.
