Spokane Co. Sheriff\'s Office credits community\, local agencies for bringing missing boy home safely

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A spokane valley boy is safe tonight..

Kidnapped from his home in the spokane valley by his father and taken to st.

John in whitman county..

Deputies surrounded the home and were able to safely remove him from the house..

His father refused to come out..

That's our top story in the nightside crime the inland northwest came together as one this morning..

Desperately searching for 5 year old ethan..

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An amber alert hit area cell phones early this morning..

Urging people to keep an eye out for young ethan..

Deputies telling us..

Ethan's father, justin robertson took him from his spokane valley home after stabbing the boys mother..

In a nightside update..

Ethan is safe tonight..

His father took his own life following a police standoff..

Ariana lake breaks down what happened.

Al intro:i'm here at the st john fairground, which has really cleared out tonight.

Earlier today, it was full of local law enforcement agencies.

It was the epicenter of where they were working from as they looked to bring this man into custody and find that young boy," Ariana lake this search started in spokane valley at a home near blossey and woodlawn.

That's where authorities believe justin robertson stabbed his wife-- and then took off with their five-year-old son-ethan.

4:3:38 "we had a pretty good idea where he was at relatively fast," Gregorysoon--first responders were at a home near saint john.

The spokane county sheriff's office says around three--they safely got ethan out of the home.then they focused their attention on robertson.

0:4:00:44"their goal was to try to get him to surrender himself peacefully and unfortunately that didn't happen," Gregorythey found him inside the home--dead.he shot himself.

4:00:53"it could have gone considerably worse.

He could have fired on our team.

Or caused them to do something.

Either way, it's a bad outcome," Gregoryauthorities say ethan's mom is expected to survive the attack.

04:01:11 "the victim sounds like she is doing better.

The child is safe and none of the numerous law enforcement and firefighters that were here were injured," Gregorywhile this day-long search didn't end the way law enforcement wanted it to--the spokane county sheriff's office noted the valuable resources that helped bring this boy home safely.

4:2:45"this is exactly what makes this comm.

So great.

It doesn't matter whether it's whitman county or spokane co.

We are eastern washington and everybody did a great job" Gregoryal oc:work is far from over for local law enforcement.

Now they'll be going over the crime scenes to learn everything they can about what happened today.

I'm Ariana Lake.

Reporting in st john for kxly4 nightside."