As Chicopee search continues with dive teams, K-9s, helicopter for missing 11-year-old Aiden Blanchard, vigil held to support family
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
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CHICOPEE Nearly two weeks after 11-year-old Aiden Blanchard went for a walk and never returned to his home in Willimansett, friends and community members gathered to show their support for his family and to continue to hope and pray the sixth-grader comes home safely.
The vigil, which drew about 30 people, was held on Wednesday at the Medina Street Boat Launch, where Chicopee, State and Environmental police continue to focus search efforts to find Aiden, who was last seen at about 11:30 a.m. Feb. 5.
MA State Police, Chicopee Police, and state Environmental Police returned the Connecticut and Chicopee Rivers to continue the search for missing 11-year-old boy Aiden Blanchard.
Feb 17, 2021
CHICOPEE, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) Authorities in central Massachusetts continued the search for a missing child Wednesday, nearly two weeks after he was last seen.
MSP said several units returned to the Connecticut and Chicopee Rivers early Wednesday as they searched for missing 11-year-old boy Aiden Blanchard. Today’s search did not locate any evidence related to Aiden’s disappearance, a spokesperson for MSP said. The operation remains focused on locating Aiden, or any evidence showing his direction of travel or whereabouts.
Aiden was last seen Friday, February 5, 2021 at approximately 11:30 a.m. as he was walking in the Willamansett area of Chicopee, near Old Field Road, and was believed to be heading in the direction of the Medina Street boat launch along the Connecticut River. Aiden is 5 foot tall, 100 lbs., with brown hair and blue eyes, and was last seen wearing a red ski jacket and black ski pants.