Missing 4-year-old girl found dead in Florida canal near family rental
The body of Evelyn K. Geer was found just hours after she was reported missing, authorities said.
The body of a missing 4-year-old girl was found Friday behind her family’s rental home in Florida, authorities said.
Evelyn K. Geer’s remains were found along the water’s edge of a canal behind her family’s VRBO rental home in Port Charlotte, Florida, just hours after she was reported missing, the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
“(Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission) located her about an hour ago while searching by boat,” the sheriff’s office said in an update sent around 8:30 a.m. “Please keep the family in your prayers as they go through this unbearable time.”
The sheriff’s office first sent an alert around 6 a.m. on June 2 for a missing endangered juvenile, which said Evelyn had been missing for several hours after she wandered off from her family’s rental home in a diaper.
Claudette Smith, a public information officer at the Port Charlotte Sheriff’s Office, told TODAY.com the family was local to the area and had been displaced from their original home.
Aviation units and a bloodhound were sent out to search for the 4-year-old girl in the town about 30 miles north of Fort Myers, according to the sheriff’s office. It is unclear when an autopsy will be performed, Smith said.
