Friday, November 15

Mother identifies her 8-year-old boy found dead in Las Vegas, but then realizes it was not her son


The Hispanic boy, his brother and his father were missing, then a body was found in a remote area of ​​Las Vegas and then came the terrible confusion

Madre identifica a su niño de 8 años encontrado sin vida en Las Vegas, pero luego se da cuenta que no era su hijo
The boy’s body was found in a remote area south of Red Rock Canyon, area from Las Vegas.

Photo: Ethan Miller / Getty Images

Ricardo López Juárez

The body of a Hispanic boy was found on Friday in a remote area of ​​ Vegas by a person who was hiking, causing an unusual case of identity confusion after a mother wrongly said that it was her lost son.

This Saturday afternoon, the clarified that the body does not correspond to the 8-year-old child of the Montes family, who was reported as lost with his brother Eden, from years, and his father José Montes-Herrera, of 37 . The three disappeared on Thursday night.

The newspaper reports published in Las Vegas and nationally during the morning and afternoon of Saturday indicating that the body found was that of the 8-year-old boy whose name has not been revealed, they were wrong.

Even a Amber alert was canceled by the authorities after initial “confirmation” from the mother, who later admitted to being confused saying they looked a lot alike. She, incredibly, had signed a document confirmation .

Update: See the attached document for more info on the homicide of a boy found near Mountain Springs on May 28 th. A mother contacted LVMPD and misidentified the victim as her son.

We are still asking for the public’s help to identify the victim. Call 788 – 1200 – 3521 with any info pic.twitter.com/mU5u4QVKNO

– LVMPD (@LVMPD) May 29, 2021

While the authorities try to identify the dead child -between 8 and 12 years- the Police said around 4: 30 pm local time that the 8-year-old boy, his brother, and his father had finally been contacted in Utah, where they went camping , and that they had not been able to communicate due to lack of telephone connection.

“The officers were able to confirm that the two children and José were fine,” said the Police in a statement.

The body was found around 7: 45 am Friday in the Mountain Springs Trailhead area, southwest of Las Vegas.

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