NEW ORLEANS — Community members came together in Metairie on Saturday to mourn the loss of 12-year-old Bryan Vasquez, a nonverbal child whose disappearance last month ended in tragedy.
Vasquez was reported missing from his home on Beaucaire Street in New Orleans East on Aug. 14. Surveillance footage later showed him walking near a lagoon where his body was discovered nearly two weeks later.
The New Orleans Coroner’s Office determined that the boy died from blunt force injuries and drowning, consistent with an alligator attack…