The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office said Ryan Akagbusi’s body was found in a lake near his last known location.
RICHMOND, Texas — The body of a missing 8-year-old boy at the center of an AMBER Alert was found in a lake Sunday morning near his last known location, according to the Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office. He was found by a Texas EquuSearch crew around 6:50 a.m.
Ryan Akagbusi had last been seen leaving his home in the Lakemont subdivision in Richmond a little before 5 a.m. Saturday.
We spoke with Ryan’s mother, Admorowa Oladind, and she said she last saw him around 4:56 a.m. Cameras picked up Ryan leaving the house with shoes, but at 5:37 a.m., a camera in the neighborhood showed Ryan running barefoot.
Oladind said her son was non-verbal.
“My friends and family are here, the whole neighborhood. Police are here,” she said during the search Saturday. “We’ve had K9. We’ve had helicopter. We’ve had drones go around. We’ve gone door to door. Everybody is here. The whole Lakemont is here.”
Oladind said while her son didn’t talk, he was very independent.
After Ryan’s body was found, neighbors told KHOU 11’s Katiera Winfrey they were heartbroken.
“A child is gone this morning,” said Porsche Smith, who had helped in the search effort. “I woke up this morning and that was the first thing I thought about.”
Smith said now is the time for the community to support a grieving mother.
“Everybody needs to have their arms around you right now because I cannot imagine,” Smith said.
Investigators said it’s not yet clear how the child got out of the house.
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