to text messages from authorities asking for help to find the three-year-old. he went missing from his dad s apartment on cooper street early tuesday morning around 6:00 o clock. intense search continued until 9:00 o clock when authorities found the little boy s body by the woods not even half a mile from his dad s home. i drove past there a few times. it was scary. reporter: eyewitness news has learned his parents are separated and he spent the night with his dad. family friends tell eyewitness news both parents spent hours being questioned by police. not somebody from this town much it s not his family. it s not a stranger did this. many individual crowd new brendan personally. hhe was going to be the hulk for halloween. he was joy. crowd placed candles, stuffed animals an collage in front of the building where he spent the night. brendan s grandfather david told eyewitness news i hope no parent or grand parent has to go through this. brendan was the sunsh
community is trying to deal with this tragedy. david. there are so many questions in this case and we re trying to find out as many answers as possible. many people at the vigil night didn t even know the cree at tow family they just came to offer some kind of peace. reporter: as the sun set, anxious neighbors from haddon township and beyond gathered outside a local church to sing, pray and ask why? for those who do believe in god it is a time to really feel that faith. reporter: neighbors woke up to text messages from authorities asking for help to find the three-year-old. he went missing from his dad s apartment on cooper street early tuesday morning around 6:00 o clock. intense search continued until 9:00 o clock when authorities found the little boy s body by the woods not even half a mile from his dad s home. i drove past there a few times. it was scary. reporter: eyewitness news has learned his parents are separated and he spent the night with his dad.
it s just devastating. reporter: david creato says the last two days without his grandson brendan have been to put it plainly a living hell. words can t describe how i m feeling right now. this is devastating to have him pulled away from us. reporter: three-year-old brendan spent the night with his dad david s son in haddon township monday night. tuesday morning he was on the phone with police. 911 what is your emergency. i just woke up and my three-year-old is missing. did you hear anything or see anything? nothing like that? no. i just woke up and he wasn t in my apartment. i don t know if he wandered out or what happened. i don t know where he is. the door was lock. i guess he unlock it and left. reporter: police found his body half a mile from his dad s apartment in the woods near a local park. hundreds gathered to remember the little boy tuesday night. and wednesday night, many including david creato are without answers. just go to sleep one night and w
brendan s father made the morning his son disappeared. david spunt spoke to brendan s grandfather and he joins us live outside the camden county prosecutor s office with more on that. david? reporter: jessica, there are so many questions still unanswered in this case. i have to tell you, brendan s family they are confused. they tell me they are just not getting the answers that they want. i spoke to his grandfather tonight for the first time on television. he spoke and really said he misses his only grandchild. i can t even look at his picture right now, without bursting out and crying. it s just devastating. reporter: david creato says the last two days without his grandson brendan have been to put it plainly a living hell. words can t describe how i m feeling right now. this is devastating to have him pulled away from us. reporter: three-year-old brendan spent the night with his dad david s son in haddon township monday night. tuesday morning he was on the phone w
still investigators are staying quiet about what may have happen g evening i m iain page. i m lucy noland. many came out tonight to remember the little boy. fox 29 s shawnette wilson was at tonight s vigil she s at the camden county prosecutor s office. shawnette? reporter: well, what happened is still very much a mystery tonight. we spoke with the prosecutor s office just a little while ago and they say there s still no indication of whether this was an accident or foul play. tonight a community is still in mourning. pray for brendon. reporter: outpouring of prayers for three-year-old brendon link creato reported missing this morning and found dead just few hours later. he s with god. dozens of people carried candles as they walked the neighborhood during a vigil for this little angel. reporter: walk ended nearly family s home on cooper street in haddon township where memorial has start to do form. dear lord, hold our children tightly. you know how much t