A body found late Monday in the Little Calumet River was identified as Kyrin Carter, 12, a boy with autism missing for over a week, officials said Tuesday morning.
The 12-year-old was autistic, and although he was nonverbal, he was highly functional.
A body found in the Little Calumet River in Hammond, Indiana, has been identified at Kyrin Carter. According to ABC 7 Chicago, the 12-year-old disappeared on May 15 from a Best Western hotel. He was from Kansas City, Missouri, but was in town to visit family. They add he was autistic, and although he was nonverbal, he was highly functional.
Eric Smith, a volunteer kayaker, was one of the many who set out to find Carter. “I looked at it because if it was my daughter I would want somebody out there giving their all, but I kept thinking it was a lost kid, and we gotta find him, he said.
McDermott said Monday night that earlier in the evening, a kayaker heading down the portion of the river behind the hotel caught sight of what he thought was a body and called it in.
Body of Kansas City boy, 12, found in Indiana river, days after he disappeared
HAMMOND, Indiana (KCTV, KSMO) A 12-year-old boy from Kansas City who went missing on a trip with his family in Indiana has been found dead.
Kyrin Carter, who has autism, was last seen May 15 at the Best Western Hotel in Hammond, Indiana.
A volunteer kayaker involved in the search for the missing teen found his body about 8:15 p.m. Monday in the Little Calumet River, according to the Lake County Indiana Coroner’s Office. A dive team removed his body just 300 feet west of hotel where he was last seen.