Nonverbal 12-year-old girl wanders from home, TX cops say. Search ‘ends in tragedy’
After a 12-year-old girl with autism wandered from her home on June 26, a Texas community banded together hoping to get her safely back home, police said.
But the search ended “in tragedy” early June 27 when the nonverbal child’s body was pulled from a lake near her home in Fulshear, police said in a Facebook post.
Aisha Adebayo was reported missing around 9 p.m. on June 26 when she was seen on a security camera leaving her home, according to police. A large search team — equipped with drones, helicopters and multiple Texas departments — formed at the nearby lake.
As rescuers searched throughout the night, they located “multiple tracks indicating she had entered the lake,” police said. Then they found her body.
Authorities’ preliminary investigation indicated that Aisha drowned, but the Fort Bend County Medical Examiner’s Office is investigating the exact cause of her death, police said.
“It was an amazing sight to see a community come together from near and far to help find Aisha,” police said in the Facebook post. “We truly wish this incident had a happy ending instead of the one that happened.”
Fulshear is about a 30-mile drive west of Houston.
This story was originally published June 27, 2024 at 1:02 PM with the headline "Nonverbal 12-year-old girl wanders from home, TX cops say. Search ‘ends in tragedy’."
