A body was discovered in the Little Calumet River Monday night in the area where they ve been searching for missing 12-year-old Kyrin Carter.
HAMMOND â A body discovered in the Little Calumet River on Monday night has been confirmed as that of 12-year-old Kyrin Carter, the Lake County coroner s office announced Tuesday.
A coroner s release sent at 6:11 a.m. listed the boy s manner of death and nature of injuries as pending. He was pronounced dead about 10 p.m. Monday.
Hammond police cars blocked the intersection of 179th Street and New Jersey Avenue around that time.
A Lake County coroner s van also was on the scene.
Published May 25, 2021 •
Updated on May 25, 2021 at 12:23 pm
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The volunteer kayaker who discovered the body of Kyrin Carter in a river in northwest Indiana on Monday said he never expected to find the missing 12-year-old himself, but he spent days searching with the hope that his skills as a fisherman could help bring the boy home. I came out here hoping every day to find him, but I didn t think I was actually gonna find him, Eric Smith said at the scene in Hammond, Indiana, on Tuesday morning. So then, like, when I spotted him, it hit me different.
Eric Smith, a Hobart man and volunteer searcher who discovered Kyrin Carter s body Monday night, recalls the experience. Lucas Gonzalez
HAMMOND â The discovery late Monday of a body identified as 12-year-old Kyrin Carter brought to a tragic end the more than weeklong search for the boy, who had gone missing from a Hammond hotel.
The boy s body was pulled about 10 p.m. Monday from the Little Calumet River adjacent to a hotel he had been staying at with family. He was pronounced dead by the Lake County coroner s office around the same time that night.
Hammond police and multiple surrounding agencies, including the Hammond Fire Department, Lake County Sheriff s Department, Indiana Department of Natural Resources Conservation Police and the Porter County Search and Rescue team, had been searching since the weekend of May 15, when Kyrin was reported missing from the Best Western hotel at 3830 179th St.
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