Remains of missing Kansas City boy pulled from Indiana river
Courtesy Highland, Indiana, Police Department
Kyrin Carter went missing while visiting Indiana with family in May 2021.
and last updated 2021-05-25 12:47:51-04
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Indiana officials have found the body of a missing Kansas City boy who disappeared while on vacation.
The Lake County Coroner s Office confirmed the identity to 41 Action News Tuesday.
Kyrin Carter, 12, has autism and walked away from the Best Western in Hammond, Indiana, on May 15.
Search efforts have been ongoing, and local officials recently began stopping the flow to the Little Calumet River to search for the missing child.
Authorities in Hammond have located a body in the Little Calumet River, around 300 feet from the hotel where a 12-year-old boy was reported missing earlier this month. According to officials with the Hammond Police Department, the body was found and pulled out of the river on Monday night, near the Best Western hotel. It was that hotel where Kyrin…
Body Found In Little Calumet River Identified As Missing 12-Year-Old Kyrin Carter
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CHICAGO (CBS)– The body found in the Little Calumet River has been identified as 12-year-old Kyrin Carter, who went missing last week in Hammond, Indiana, the Lake County Coroner’s Officer confirmed.
A dive team removed the body from the Little Calumet River just 300 feet west of where 12-year-old Kyrin Carer, was last seen at a Best Western Hotel in Hammond, Indiana.
Police said the teen’s body was found, around 8:15 p.m. Monday, by a volunteer kayaker involved in the search for the missing teen. Hammond police will provide an update later Tuesday morning.