Toddler Lost at Carnival Is Found After 16 Hours
A 2-year-old boy missing for 16 hours after disappearing from an Easter carnival at a Sunland park was found Monday morning wandering in a Panorama City parking lot about 10 miles away, Los Angeles police said.
Jesse Salazar of Panorama City was found unharmed and was reunited with his parents at Sunland Park about 10:15 a.m. Authorities earlier had reported that the family was from Sunland.
Though it is unlikely that the boy walked from Sunland to the 8400 block of Van Nuys Boulevard in Panorama City, police stopped short of calling Jesse’s disappearance a kidnaping and on Monday were still investigating the incident.
Los Angeles Police Capt. Tim McBride said detectives were investigating a report that Jesse had been seen earlier with a group of people at the shopping center where he was found.
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