Missing Roseville boy found safe after large search
Roseville 6-year-old boy missing for hours found safe
Roseville, Minn. police say they found a missing 6-year-old boy safe after a large search on Tuesday. Ashley White, the mother of the missing boy, said they were at her mother's house getting kids ready for school when we went missing.
ROSEVILLE, Minn. (FOX 9) - Roseville, Minn. police say they have found a missing 6-year-old boy safe after a large search on Tuesday.
Boy's mother Ashley White: ‘I was in a mental block’
The backstory:
Ashley White, the mother of the missing boy, said they were at her mother's house getting kids ready for school. The boy was getting ready to head to the school bus when White told him it wasn't time yet. White went to get her other kids ready, and when she called for her son, he wasn't at the home.
Mother after missing Roseville boy found safe: 'I was just scared'
Roseville resident Ashley White spoke Tuesday afternoon after police found her 6-year-old son, who had gone missing for several hours.
The boy was found Tuesday afternoon down the street, near a set of bushes.
Missing boy in Roseville, Minn.
What we know:
Roseville police issued the alert for the boy Tuesday morning after the boy left his home on foot around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Local perspective:
In an update at noon, police said the boy was last seen in the area of Sherren Street West and Nancy Place – in a neighborhood off Lexington Avenue North south of Highway 36.
On that block, police had set up a command center and multiple officers were working to search for the child.
At 2 p.m., Roseville Police Chief Erika Scheider announced that the child had been safe by search crews during a briefing.
What they're saying:
During the briefing, Chief Scheider detailed the search effort.
"There's a lot of wooded areas, there's a lot of brush areas, some parks nearby, some small ponds," said the chief. "And so we were really doing kind of a grid search of each of those areas, just knowing that there was a lot of people, a lot places that a small child could be hiding. They could be scared. We're just literally exhausting every possible option out there to find this young child."
Why no Amber Alert?
Big picture view:
No Amber Alert has been issued for the disappearance. That's because an Amber Alert requires specific criteria to be issued.
First, Amber Alerts are normally only issued in cases of abductions, which doesn't appear to be the case in Roseville.
Even in cases of abductions, authorities will go through the following checklist before issuing an Amber Alert:
1.) Is the abduction one in which the victim is 17 years of age or younger? If yes, go to Question 2. If no, go to Question 3.
2.) Do you believe the child to be in imminent danger of serious bodily harm or death? If yes, request activation of an Amber Alert. If no, go to Question 3.
3. Could assistance from the public, law enforcement, businesses and the media help in locating the person who does not meet AMBER Alert criteria? If yes, issue an Endangered Missing Person Alert. (This has been issued in Kamryn's disappearance). If not, BCA agents are available to assist your agency as needed.