A seven-year-old autistic boy was found dead in the swimming pool of an abandoned home in Hawaii on Christmas Day morning.
Paul ‘Kevin’ Rozier went missing on Christmas Eve at about 5pm and his body was found floating in a pool about half a mile from his Mililani home the following morning.
Honolulu police said a woman walking her dog found Kevin’s body just before 8am.
Paul ‘Kevin’ Rozier went missing on Christmas Eve at about 5pm and his body was found floating in a pool about half a mile from his Mililani home the following morning
Police said the boy appeared to have died from accidental drowning. They do not suspect foul play.
The boy’s parents, Paul and Jasmine, said they were out doing last minute Christmas shopping on Sunday night when he disappeared.
They had left him with his cousins when he wandered off, which he was known for doing due to his autism.
‘It was a constant race to keep ahead of him and to be able to keep him in the house,’ his dad Paul told Hawaii News Now.
‘Though he was only partially verbal, he was extremely smart.’
The seven-year-old’s body was found in the swimming pool of this vacant home in Mililani
The boy’s parents, Paul and Jasmine, (pictured above) said they were out doing last minute Christmas shopping on Sunday night when he disappeared
When his parents realized he was missing, they put out a desperate plea for help on social media, which prompted hundreds to look for him.
‘His teachers, his therapists and behavioral techs and just random people who heard us calling for him on the street and asked what was happening were searching,’ Paul said.
The heartbroken family said they wanted to thank everyone who helped search for their little boy who they described as a sweet and polite boy.
‘His personality, his spirit, his heart, he was just the most caring, loving, amazing kid ever and we only had seven years with him but those were the best seven years I could have ever asked for,’ his mother Jasmine said.
Kevin leaves behind a two-year-old sister.
The heartbroken family described Kevin as a sweet and polite boy. He leaves behind a two-year-old sister