{"id":23412,"date":"2014-12-26T16:14:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T21:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=23412"},"modified":"2014-12-26T16:14:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T21:14:28","slug":"tragedy-four-year-old-autistic-boy-who-went-missing-found-dead-in-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/tragedy-four-year-old-autistic-boy-who-went-missing-found-dead-in-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy: Four-Year-Old Autistic Boy Who Went Missing Found Dead In Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"
A four-year-old autistic New York boy who\u00a0went missing during a family trip to South Carolina was found dead, officials say.<\/p>\n
Coroner Robert Edge reported that Jayden Jorrison was found dead this morning in a pond.<\/p>\n
Emergency workers and over 100 volunteers searched the South Carolina coastal town of Little River, about 25 miles north of Myrtle Beach, on Christmas Eve and until 1 a.m. on Christmas Day for the boy. He was last seen at his grandmother’s house at 6 p.m. wearing red footie pajamas and had been under her care at the time.T<\/p>\n
Jayden and his mother arrived at his grandmother’s house in South Carolina on December 24th and explained<\/p>\n
Jayden, who is nonverbal, wouldn’t respond if his name was called and\u00a0would likely be \u00a0unable to find his way home because he is not familiar with the South Carolina neighborhood in which his grandmother resides.<\/p>\n
Carolyn Sumpter, the grandmother, answered a phone call and quickly quickly noticed the front door was open with Jayden nowhere in sight. The boy’s mother left him under Sumpter’s care while she did some last minute Christmas shopping.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re just distraught,\u201d Sumpter told the Daily News. “We lost our baby.”<\/p>\n
He would likely not be able to find his way home because he is not familiar with the South Carolina neighborhood in which his grandmother resides.<\/p>\n
‘He\u2019s never done anything like this before,’ Morrison told the Sun News. ‘He\u2019s 4 years old. He\u2019s never been out of my eyesight.’<\/p>\n
Tabatha Morrison left her son with her mother to do some Christmas shopping.\u00a0‘Mom called me at the store and said she couldn’t find him,’ Tabatha\u00a0said. She frantically sped home to find emergency workers already at the house.<\/p>\n
“The houses here all look the same,” she said. “At home he would be able to point out his house.”<\/p>\n