A young boy disappeared in Kentucky early Tuesday, prompting a statewide alert, and was found dead hours later. A preliminary autopsy showed that 5-year-old Silas Chearer died from drowning.

A 2024 bill paved the way for the IAN Alert, named after 9-year-old Ian Sousis, who drowned in 2022 in the Ohio River after slipping away from the Children’s Home of Northern Kentucky. The alert ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- The cause of death for a 5-year-old boy with autism who was found dead after a statewide IAN Alert Tuesday in Hart County, Kentucky, was consistent with drowning.

A young boy disappeared in Kentucky early Tuesday, prompting a statewide alert, and was found dead hours later. A preliminary autopsy showed that 5-year-old Silas Chearer died from drowning. No ...