An Amber Alert has been issued following the disappearance of a four-year-old boy who went missing in North Carolina on Wednesday.
Authorities said that the child, Raul Johnson, was last seen on foot on Village Drive, traveling toward Crestline Road in Laurinburg, North Carolina.
He is said to have been wearing a white and orange striped shirt with tigers on it, along with white pants printed with rocket ships. He was barefoot at the time.
Johnson is said to be Indian, with black hair and brown eyes, standing about three feet tall and weighing 38 pounds.
Raul Johnson, 4, was last seen walking away from his North Carolina home on Wednesday. Authorities have no issued an Amber Alert following his disappearance
Authorities said that this wasn’t the first time that Johnson had walked away from his home. He reportedly went missing for about 25 minutes on Tuesday.
Scotland County Sheriff Ralph Kersey said that about 200 people have been searching for Johnson both on the ground and in the air, while a dive team has been dispatched to a nearby pond, WBTV reported Thursday.
Local K-9 units are also being deployed in Johnson’s search.
The FBI and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation are also involved in the search now.
According to ABC11, Kersey said the hope is to uncover new information about what happened to the child, since searchers ‘have pretty much covered all the area that we thought a four-year-old could travel barefoot and we have not left any rock overturned.’
Cheyenne Johnson (left) and her aunt Kasey Locklear hold posters of missing Raul
Beginning Friday, the Scotland County Sheriff’s Department, FBI and SBI will transition from a search-and-rescue effort into an ‘investigative approach.’
Johnson was said to have been under his grandfather’s care before it was discovered that he had wandered away.
Authorities do not currently believe that foul play was involved, based on the interviews they’ve conducted with Johnson’s family members, neighbors or information that’s come in from the public.
Anyone with information about Johnson is asked to call the Scotland County Sheriff’s Office at (910) 276-3385 or call 911.