Kaleb Jamison, missing Canton, Mississippi 4 year old autistic boy who left home without his shoes found drowned at nearby pond less than a day later.
Mississippi authorities on Wednesday morning confirmed recovering the remains of a missing 4 year old autistic boy at a pond after the boy vanishing from his family’s Canton apartment residence just hours earlier.
Kaleb Jamison was last seen wearing a light-colored shirt, pull-ups and no shoes at approximately 11:45 a.m. Tuesday at The Trails at Madison apartment complex in Canton.
Investigators with the Canton Police Department said the boy could be seen on doorbell cameras walking away from his home on Tuesday, prompting a large-scale search, also involving the FBI.
Read a statement in part by the Canton Police Dept, ‘This was not the outcome that we were hoping for. Everyone, please keep this baby’s family in your prayers.’
Jamison’s body was found around 11:15 p.m. Tuesday in a retention pond near his father’s apartment complex. The child was found by a Madison County dive team, Canton Police Chief Otha Brown told the Clarion Ledger.
‘Everybody is saddened by what took place. You can see by the expressions on everyone’s faces that were out in the apartment complex,’ Brown told the outlet. ‘We had been out searching since about 2 o’clock. We were trying to put a strategy together of where we needed to be looking and visited some homes that had cameras, trying to locate where the young man was last seen at. When we got all of that together, we searched the pond and that’s where we found him at.’
It remained unclear if the boy’s parents faced any charges.
If you have any information, please contact the Canton Police Department at 601-859-2121.
