Virginia Beach, the body of 12-year-old Juan Sebastian Mejia Acevedo, was recovered from a pond in Virginia Beach, Virginia on Monday.
The discovery takes place two days after the police published an amber alarm for the missing child. The Virginia State Police sent the media at 2:55 p.m. by e -mail that the Amber was canceled alarm.
The body was pulled out of a pond at 1 p.m. near the Cambria in Cornerstone Apartments at the South Independence Boulevard when the police searched for the boy.
The pond is located near the 200 Block of Mica Avenue – the address in which the police say that Acevedo was last seen by his parents a few days ago.
Courtney Rivera recorded film material on her ring doorbell camera from Acevedo, who played in the snow with his friends and has helped search since then.
“I feel with a broken heart,” said Rivera. “Just thinking about it, lets me tear because it is only – this result did not want this result.”
The police did not work on the circumstances of Acevedo's death, but Chief Neuudate said that the ice that formed during the recent cold weather “played a major role”.
The police said it was too early to recognize whether they opened an investigation into murder or whether the death of Acevedo is ruled by chance.
His body was sent to the medical examiner's office to determine a cause of death.
“It is too early for me to speculate … We have just recovered. Since we receive more information and confirm facts and not what we believe, we will bring this into the community “but we didn't want to leave stone.”
Acevedo was reported to be missing for the first time on Friday evening, the police said.
His parents believed that he was in a friend's house, but they called the police around 9 p.m. when he hadn't returned home.
The police began to examine Acevedo's disappearance as possible kidnapping after his parents received a ransom message on Facebook.
After he had learned, VBPD treated the case as a kidnapping and contacted the state police to send an Amber alarm that was exhibited at around 7 a.m.
Neugate announced that either the family or someone on behalf of the family paid 500 US dollars, but after that there was no additional communication.
When asked whether the ransom note could have been a fraud, Neudugate replied: “This would not be the first time that this type of fraud was immortalized on a family that goes through the difficult circumstances. Is that a possibility? It is absolutely. ”
He added that the possibility that the ransom was a fraud was one of the theories of the police, but not to treat it as an actual threat or kidnapping would be negligent.
The police have not identified potential suspects behind the ransom, but new and new and says that this is still part of their investigations.
“Since they were transactions outside the state, we unfortunately need search commands, prayers to identify who this person was who received this money,” he said.
New and thanked the community for the expression of support and care during the search.
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