CO AMARI GALAN: Missing from Rocky Ford, CO - 18 May 2024 - Age 3 *Found Deceased*

Search continues for missing 3-year-old Rocky Ford boy who walked away from home

The search continues Sunday for a 3-year-old boy with special needs who went missing in the Otero County town of Rocky Ford early Saturday morning.

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Search continues for missing 3-year-old Rocky Ford boy who walked away from home​

The search continues Sunday for a 3-year-old boy with special needs who went missing in the Otero County town of Rocky Ford early Saturday morning.

Authorities believe Amari Galan, wearing just a diaper, walked away from his home in the 900 block of Washington Street around 4 a.m.

The Otero County Sheriff's Department said crews from multiple agencies searched throughout the night Saturday and into Sunday morning, but were unable to locate the 3-year-old.

They are back in the area Sunday searching on foot and vehicle, using drones and K-9s, the sheriff's department said.

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Urgent search continues for missing 3-year-old with special needs in Otero County​

Around 4 a.m. on Saturday, May 18, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said Amari Galan walked away from his home in the 900 block of Washington Street in Rocky Ford, Colorado.

The Rocky Ford Police Department (RFPD) says Amari has special needs (autism) and was wearing only a diaper at the time of his disappearance.

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

 

[Summer_Breeze]

Search for missing 3-year-old with special needs in Rocky Ford ends in tragedy

The body of a 3-year-old who went missing over the weekend has been found.

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By Aaron Vitatoe and Kasia Kerridge
Published: May. 19, 2024 at 11:08 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago

ROCKY FORD, Colo. (KKTV) - The body of a 3-year-old who went missing over the weekend has been found.

After nearly two days of searching on foot, in vehicles, with drones, and with dogs, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) confirmed the little boy was found in an irrigation canal.

Amari Galan went missing early Saturday morning in Rocky Ford, last seen wearing only a diaper. Law enforcement believed he slipped out of the house and walked away on his own. Rocky Ford police said Amari was autistic and considered special needs.

“It is with great sadness that the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, along with Rocky Ford Police, the Otero County Sheriff’s Office and Otero County coroner, can confirm the discovery of a body in an irrigation canal earlier today is that of a 3-year-old boy who was reported missing Saturday morning,” said CBI in a press release. “Law enforcement wishes to share its condolences with the family of Amari Galan.”

Investigators focused on the Caitlin Canal that runs directly behind the child’s home. Search and Rescue found the boy several miles downstream around 5 p.m. Sunday.

We will update this article as we learn more.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I hate that with drownings, child or adult, autistic or not, there's little real way to ever tell if accidental or not and almost always they are ruled accidental.

This one likely is, who knows, but the point is still the same.

It also amazes me how many cases we have seen with autistic children who do attract to water and there is a water source basically in the back yard. I'm not saying people have a choice always as to where they live but there are plenty of places such isn't the case. I'd have to walk for miles to find water even though I live somewhere the Mississippi flows through and has at least four different areas and bridges over it.

If you had a child with autism wouldn't you try to find somewhere not close to any water? Because it seems to me they get out the door and that's where they end up in almost every case we see. I don't recall many cases of such at all until COVID and we then saw a ton of them. I found that odd as well. Perhaps there always have been more but one just wasn't aware or they just weren't covered here much until then. I don't know.

Just observations.

RIP little boy.

 

[Guess Who]

I hadn't looked at a map of this place until now. They were basically right on that canal.

 

[GrandmaBear]

I hadn't looked at a map of this place until now. They were basically right on that canal.

Like I said maybe no choice but why if you had a choice and they attract so strongly to water...

We have had a few cases the parent knew such and the parent did it. One at least I remember for sure and it seems a few and in most how can one ever know. I hate drownings even with adults, they are almost always ruled accidental without any true knowledge.

 

[Guess Who]

Like I said maybe no choice but why if you had a choice and they attract so strongly to water...

We have had a few cases the parent knew such and the parent did it. One at least I remember for sure and it seems a few and in most how can one ever know. I hate drownings even with adults, they are almost always ruled accidental without any true knowledge.

To be fair, at only 3 they might have just been figuring it out.

 

[Guess Who]

They might not have been aware the child could even gotten it on his own at that point.