Hours after he went missing from a Belle Glade park Monday, the body of an autistic boy was recovered from a canal where he had drowned.
Siyoga Murphy Jr., 5, vanished while playing with his sister at Pioneer Park at around 6 p.m., authorities said.
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The girl told detectives she turned around to find that her brother was not there.
Deputies with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office determined that the boy may have gone into a nearby pond.
They reportedly used sonar to locate the child underwater in an area filled with bodies of water.
