“I love you Brody, just come home, okay?”
LIVINGSTON PARISH, La. (WAFB) - Livingston Parish Sheriff’s deputies, along with the FBI and U.S. Marshals spent Monday, Oct. 28 searching for a boy who has been missing since Sunday afternoon.
He was located Monday evening. LPSO Sheriff Jason Ard notified media around 6:22 p.m. that he was found safe .
10-year-old Brody Sturdivant was missing from his home in Eastover Estates, a mobile home park in Denham Springs.
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“We have a little boy named Brody Sturdivant. He was 10 years old who is missing. He’s been missing yesterday since about noon. We were contacted last night around 11 o’clock p.m. that is not uncommon for a family to call us later on because right now, we think that Brody, everybody’s thinking that he is just missing from after running away,” Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard said.
Sturdivant’s aunt and guardian Amanda Pearson says the boy is known to run off when he gets upset.
“He has some mental problems, and he didn’t make the right decision after he was corrected for saying something he shouldn’t have said. I took the PlayStation, and he thought it was the end of the world, and so he split, and that’s what happened,” Pearson said.
In a late morning news conference Monday, Ard said despite the chance he ran away on his own, they were treating this very seriously.
“Most of the evidence and the information we have received is that this is not uncommon for him to do this, but this is a long time for him to be missing. This is not a 2-hour thing, this is since 12 o’clock yesterday, so we’re already going right on at 24 hours,” Ard said.
As the search continued, his aunt made a plea to the public.
“Brody, if you’re seeing this, I just want to tell you that we love you baby. And we want you to come home. And we know you’re pretty much hiding somewhere,” Pearson said. “He’s a stick of dynamite, but he’s my little dynamite, and I love him so much and I love you Brody, just come home, okay?”
“He is known to run away, Brody’s done this before, like I said earlier. However, he may get scared, he may run from you if you see him and try to approach him, the best thing to do if you actually see Brody, just let us know and we’ll come over there and see if we can try to talk him out of whatever area he is in. and again, that’s our hope that’s where Brody’s at right now,” Ard said.
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