Kyrin Carter: Body found in search for 12-year-old boy last seen leaving hotel barefoot
Flowers in tribute to a 12-year-old whose body was found in a river in Indiana
(FOX32)The body found in the search for a missing 12-year-old was confirmed to be that of Kyrin Carter.
The Lake County Coroner's Office identified the body on Tuesday morning as that of Kyrin, according to FOX32.
A kayaker found the body in the Little Calumet River in Hammond, Indiana, at about 8.15pm on Monday.
He called officers and told them he found a body about 300 feet from where Carter went missing on 15 May.
Kyrin, who had autism, was caught on CCTV footage walking out of a hotel barefoot and vanished.
He was staying with family, who were visiting relatives in Hammond, at a Best Western hotel.
The kayaker who went searching for Kyrin’s body told FOX32: “It was happines that I found him, that I could give the family closure”.
“But then finding his body, it hit me hard,” he continued, “I wasn’t ready for it, but that’s what I came here to do”.
A diving team were able to recover the body after.
The cause of death has not yet been determined.
Officials from Hammond are scheduled to hold a press conference on Tuesday afternoon.
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