Body Found In Texas City Pond Identified As Missing Autistic Boy

TEXAS CITY, TX — Authorities searching a mile-wide perimeter around a Texas City apartment complex for a day and a half, recovered the body of Xavion Young from a nearby retention pond Monday evening, officials said.

Family members confirmed the grim discovery and positively identified his body on Tuesday.

The discovery of the child’s body came just before 6 p.m. in a pond behind the Costa Mariposa Apartment complex in the 7500 block of Medical Center Drive.

It's the same area where 7-year-old Xavion Young, who suffered from autism, liked to go and feed a goose that lives at the pond.

More than 150 volunteers and members from 15 different law enforcement agencies searched for Young after his mother reported him missing on Sunday afternoon.

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Teams began their search of several nearby retention ponds around the apartment complex but couldn’t find any trace of the boy.

Less than an hour before the child's body was found, Xavion’s mother JaRisa Young tearfully pleaded to the public to help bring her son home, KPRC reported.

"I'm trying to stay strong for my other two girls, but inside I'm dying," JaRisa pleaded during a KPRC interview. "I'm dying, and I need you all, please, just bring my baby home."

A vigil will be held for the Xavion Young on Tuesday at 6 p.m., near the pond. The family is asking the community to bring hangers because her son loved playing with them.

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