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The search for a missing non-verbal six-year-old boy in Shamattawa First Nation continued Sunday, with multiple teams continuing to do grid searches.
Five-person team from Garden Hill First Nation also expected to join search Sunday evening, RCMP say
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· Posted: Sep 22, 2024 5:56 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
Searches continued to do grid searches in Shamattawa First Nation Sunday. (Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Manitoba/Facebook )
The search for a missing non-verbal six-year-old boy in Shamattawa First Nation continued Sunday, with multiple teams doing grid searches.
Johnson Redhead was last seen on Wednesday morning, after he went to his school’s breakfast program but didn’t show up to class after that, RCMP previously said.
Redhead, who was last seen wearing a blue hoodie with a grey hood, is believed to have left the school area Wednesday, sparking a large-scale search of the area by community members and police.
RCMP said in a social media post Sunday afternoon that the the search party includes members from RCMP Search and Rescue, the Office of the Fire Commissioner, Manto Sipi Cree Nation, Pimicikamak Cree Nation and Tataskweyak Cree Nation.
Handfuls of members from Shamattawa First Nation have also been helping with the search, RCMP previously told CBC News.
A five-person team from Garden Hill First Nation is also expected to arrive in the northeastern Manitoba fly-in community Sunday night, RCMP said in their post.
Johnson Redhead, 6, was at a school breakfast program in Shamattawa First Nation on Wednesday, but has not been seen since, RCMP said. (RCMP)
On Saturday, RCMP Sgt. Paul Manaigre said the search has been largely focused on bushes in the west of the community, near its nursing station, after tracks were spotted in the gravel pits there. It’s not yet known if the tracks were Redhead’s.
Three main search teams with GPS were expected to conduct a grid search of that area Saturday afternoon, Manaigre said, walking the area back and forth in a line, about six metres apart, then inputting the data into a map to track which areas have been covered.
He also said the expansive search also included a helicopter, a police dog and drones with infrared capability.
On Saturday, Redhead’s aunt, Sheila Reigns, wrote in a Facebook post “Family is not giving up and they just wanna be out there, they won’t come home yet, until they found him,”
“Let’s not give up. I know it’s getting exhausting and tiring,” the post said.
