Posted 4:03 pm Wednesday, August 22, 2012
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UPDATE: Missing 2-year-old found dead; may be homicide
UPDATED Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 12:44 p.m. CDT
A source close to the investigation of the death of a 2-year-old near Winona told the Tyler Paper this morning that the case is being investigated as a possible homicide.
Jake Kimbley, 2, was found dead on his family's property in a septic tank partially exposed above ground.
Multiple agencies, including fire departments, the sheriff's office and air support searched Tuesday afternoon for the toddler who went missing while playing hide-and-seek near Farm-to-Market Road 16 and U.S. Highway 271, according to dispatchers.
The Sheriff's Office is in charge of the investigation, officials said.
Tylerpaper.com will post more information as it becomes available.
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Jake Kimbley, 2, was found dead on his family's property in a septic tank partially exposed above ground.
Multiple agencies, including fire departments, the sheriff's office and air support searched Tuesday afternoon for the toddler who went missing while playing hide-and-seek near Farm-to-Market Road 16 and U.S. Highway 271, according to dispatchers.
The Sheriff's Office is in charge of the investigation, officials said.
Tylerpaper.com will post more information as it becomes available.
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UPDATED Wednesday, August 22, 2012 at 8:40 a.m. CDT
The 2-year-old boy missing near Winona was found dead overnight, according to Smith County Sheriff's office officials. More details will be posted as they become available.
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A team of emergency responders and volunteers numbering around 150 combed the woods in Winona Tuesday searching for a 2-year-old boy who disappeared.
Lt. Larry Wiginton of the Smith County Sheriff's Office said horse-mounted deputies, game wardens, firefighters, police officers, volunteers and state troopers used four wheelers and a helicopter to search for the boy, whose first name is Jake.
"It's just been (lots) of people," he said.
Dispatchers with the Department of Public Safety said the mentally disabled boy disappeared around 2 p.m. while playing hide and seek with friends in the woods around his home in Winona, near Farm-to-Market Road 16 and U.S. Highway 271.
Wiginton said the home resides on a 20-acre lot and was set back from the road some distance.
As of 8:30 p.m., no sign of the little boy, other than footprints in the mud of a nearby creek, had been found, Wiginton said.
The boy was reported without shoes and wearing a red, white and green shirt and tan shorts.
Wiginton said as of 8:30 p.m., authorities were not treating the situation an abduction, and there was no evidence indicating he was or was not abducted.
"We're just treating it as he just walked off," he said.
