The boy was staying at a resort across the highway from Walt Disney World property.
ORLANDO, Fla. — A 3-year-old boy at the center of a Florida Missing Child Alert was found dead Thursday afternoon after he wandered away from an Orlando resort.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement put out an alert for missing Rakim Akbari just before noon. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said Rakim wandered away from a resort near World Center Drive, which is across Interstate 95 from Walt Disney World property.
The sheriff’s office said Rakim, who also goes by “Tuda,” has autism and there is “extreme concern for his well being.” He was wearing white pajama pants and a t-shirt when he went missing.
Rakim was found later in the afternoon deceased in a body of water at the resort he wandered away from in the morning.
“We are grieving his loss, and our prayers are with his family,” the sheriff’s office said in a social media post.
Detectives are looking into how the boy died.
