Officers Rescue Missing Boy With Autism From Storm Drain

What started as a routine afternoon at a park quickly turned into a tense search in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Police officers spent about 40 minutes looking for a missing five-year-old autistic boy after learning he’d wandered away from a playground. This week, the department shared a video showing their officers thoroughly searching the surrounding area.

While checking near a retention pond, Officer Jacob Hugley spotted a section of fencing that had been pulled up. Following his instincts, he climbed under the fence and called out for the boy in an open storm drain. After hearing a small voice respond, Officer Steven Nunez crawled into the pipe and located him several hundred feet inside…

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