UPDATE:
The Nova Scotia RCMP says the search for a toddler who went missing with a woman over the weekend has come to a tragic end.
Earlier Tuesday afternoon, the RCMP initially said the 36-year-old woman was found dead but the search for the toddler was continuing.
Just before 2 p.m. Tuesday, police said the boy was also found dead, close to the woman’s remains.
“At this time, the death is not believed to be suspicious in nature; however; the investigation is ongoing,” police said in a release.
“Our thoughts are with the child’s family at this difficult time.”
The pair were last seen on Ruth Falls Road in Ruth Falls in the Sheet Harbour area around 2 a.m. Saturday, and were believed to be on foot.
Posts on social media indicate the two were mother and child, though police did not say in the release. A spokesperson for the RCMP could not immediately be reached for comment.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10320382/ns-missing-toddler-lucas-robert-cooper/
ORIGINAL:
A 36-year-old Ruth Falls woman has been found dead, after going missing Saturday with a three-year-old boy.
An extensive search for the child is ongoing.
Mounties found the body of Holly Jean Cooper on Tuesday and say that her death is not believed to be suspicious.
RCMP air, police service dog and underwater recovery team, the Canadian Coast Guard and ground search and rescue teams from Sheet Harbour, Eastern Shore, Musquodoboit Valley and Halifax are still trying to find Lucas Robert Cooper, the toddler reported missing with Cooper.
Police do not say how the two are related.
Lucas, standing about three feet, has black curly hair and brown eyes, but police don’t know what he was wearing when he was last seen.
