UPDATE: Sadly the missing child has been located deceased
https://missingpeople.ca/missing-3-year-old-boy-found-deceased-in-creek-in-mississauga/
ORIGINAL:
Peel Regional Police are looking for a young boy described as a vulnerable child who may be non-verbal after he was reported missing at a Mississauga park.
Three-year-old Zaid was last seen at 6:20 p.m. on Thursday in the area of Erindale Park near Mississauga Road and Dundas Street West.
He is described as having a thin build with a short, dark afro haircut. He was wearing a yellow top with red writing and black pants with no shoes or socks when he went missing.
Firefighters joined Peel police in the search late Thursday night and a photo posted on social media showed crews searching the water. The Credit River runs through the park.
CityNews saw a police helicopter and a drone repeatedly fly over Erindale Park early Friday while Peel police officers blocked the entrance to the darkened ravine and park.
Several members of the public could be seen arriving at the scene offering to help with the search as some used their cellphone lights to search bushes outside of the park entrance.
Brampton resident Jameel Khalid said he heard about the missing boy through a social media feed and drove to the scene to offer to help. He said he was concerned an Amber Alert wasn’t issued.
“It kept bothering me for the rest of the evening … I have kids of my own … my spirit moved me to come and see if I could be of any assistance, but when I came the officer told me they have enough resources,” Khalid told reporters.
“As a parent, you know it’s somebody’s child and you feel it. There’s a … three-year-old child in the bush, could be stuck somewhere, could be a whole number of different things and it didn’t sit well with me and I felt the need to come and see if I could render any kind of assistance.
“I don’t know how many more (crews) are inside there, but I would want more. I would want more to be out looking for this child.”
In Ontario, an Amber Alert can be requested of the OPP if the following guidelines are met: Officers believe the child has been abducted, the child is in imminent danger (risk of bodily harm or death), if broadcasting the alert will help find the child and if there are one or more descriptions (of the child, one if there’s a suspected abductor and/or the vehicle).
Police are asking anyone who sees him to call 9-1-1 immediately.
https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/07/25/3-year-old-vulnerable-child-missing-in-mississauga/
