Searchers found body in Mississippi River in Brooklyn Center
Authorities have sealed off a site at North Mississippi Regional Park in Brooklyn Center, where a body was found in the river.
Searchers who were out looking for 10-year-old Barway Collins called 911 at 1 p.m. Saturday, saying that there appeared to be a body several yards from shore, said Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek at a brief press conference late Saturday afternoon.
The sheriff's department arrived at the park at 53rd and Lyndale and found a body about 20 feet from shore. Stanek said that the Hennepin County Medical Examiner will identify the body and release the information.
Law enforcement agencies have provided few other details, but the park has been the focus of several searches for Barway Collins, a Crystal fourth-grader who's been missing for more than three weeks.
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The Hennepin County sheriff's office, Brooklyn Center police, Crystal police and the Hennepin County Water Patrol were on the scene.
Barway was last seen after school on March 18 in front of his apartment complex. Police have said a family member is a suspect but he hasn't been arrested or charged.
Police have said that the family member was in the park area just after the boy went missing.
The boy's father reported Barway missing about 4:30 p.m. March 18.