BALDWIN, La. (AP) — Police in a Louisiana town are defending their handling of the disappearance of a Black teenager who was found dead earlier this month.
Baldwin Assistant Police Chief Samuel Wise told southwest Louisiana news outlets that the search for 15-year-old Quawan “Bobby” Charles began soon after his mother reported him missing on Oct. 30.
Wise said the case did not appear to warrant issuing an Amber Alert for a missing child.
Charles’ body was found in some water in Iberia Parish woods on Nov. 3. Autopsies indicate he drowned. Iberia Parish authorities are investigating the death as a homicide.