9 Year Old Autistic Boy Abducted and Killed

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I tracked down another account of the incident.

The boy’s mother, Patricia Ripley, 47, told police she was driving with her son Thursday night at about 8:47 p.m. when she noticed she was being followed by a car she didn’t recognize, a Miami-Dade police report says.

“The driver of the unknown vehicle attempted to side-swipe her vehicle, forcing her to veer onto SW 158 Avenue,” the report says.

“The vehicle then blocked her in while a male passenger ambushed her, demanding drugs,” it says.

The child was wearing a blue Captain America shirt, black shorts and black Crocs.

“We are very, very sad," Boris Ugartechea, a neighbor and friend of the family, told CBS Miami. Ugartechea described Alejandro as "a very, very happy kid. He was always playing, doing something with his little laptop."

Early Friday, the boy's body was found near a lake at the Miccosukee Golf and Country Club, not far from where he had been abducted, the Sun-Sentinel reports.

Source: 9-Year-Old Fla. Boy with Autism Was Allegedly Kidnapped in Front of Mom, Found Dead the Next Day

The mother was driving a van, not a car. She was driving down the road when a car tried to sideswipe her van. As a result she tried to flee by changing directions, but the suspects then block her van and ambushed her. Apparently, the news crew spoke to a Home Depot employee who relayed the story of what happened. So this incident must have occurred near a Home Depot. So it is not certain if the Home Depot employee was an eye witness or not.

Other news accounts state:

The boy's body was found floating in a lake in southwest Miami-Dade

The body had been found in a canal near the Miccosukee Golf & Country Club at Southwest 138th Court and 62nd Street.

Ripley also told police there were two abductors. One, she said, was dressed in all black and had his face covered by a bandanna. She claimed the man had corn rows. [Cornrows or braids, also called canerows in the Caribbean, are a style of hair braiding, in which the hair is braided very close to the scalp, using an underhand, upward motion to make a continuous, raised row. Cornrows are often formed in simple, straight lines, as the name implies, but they can also be formed in elaborate geometric or curvilinear designs. Depending on the region of the world, cornrows are worn by men or women, or both, and are sometimes adorned with beads, hair cuffs or cowry shells.]

Ripley and her husband and other family members, however, remained at police headquarters late Friday afternoon, where they continued to be interviewed by homicide detectives, said Miami-Dade police spokesman Christopher Sowerby-Thomas. And a source familiar with the investigation said a security camera at a Home Depot near where the alleged abduction took place showed Ripley sitting in her car alone — without Alejandro — for 20 minutes before she called police at 8:47 p.m.

Police said they arrived within two minutes.

Still several unanswered questions. It they stole her cell phone, whose phone did she use to call the police.

This is probably a story that will flesh out in the next few days. Probably need to keep an eye on it.

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Oops, accidental double post.

So people now think this is another Susan Smith and the drug robery was just a rouse.

Here is the police twitter account ... lots of skeptical comments ...

some comments say a camera caught her sitting in her car 20 mins before calling police
some say she already confessed

https://twitter.com/fdlepio/status/1263 ... wsrc%5Etfw

This just posted facebook page linked to the Miami Herald article
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/ ... wTtj6sGWag
Miami-Dade police spokesman Christopher Sowerby-Thomas. And a source familiar with the investigation said a security camera at a Home Depot near where the alleged abduction took place showed Ripley sitting in her car alone — without Alejandro — for 20 minutes before she called police at 8:47 p.m.
Police said they arrived within two minutes.
MIami-Dade County court records hint that Alejandro may have attended a West Kendall special needs school called Greater Heights Academy. The court records show the school sued Patricia Ripley in 2016 over about $4,100 in unpaid tuition for her son. The case settled months later after mediation. Social media posts indicate that Alejandro has a 21-year-old brother.

SO MORE TO THIS STORY

A Florida woman who authorities say initially told them her 9-year-old son was kidnapped now faces a murder charge in connection with his death.

Patricia Ripley, 47, of West Kendall, was booked into the Miami-Dade County jail early Saturday following hours of questioning by police, the Miami Herald reported.

Her arrest came after her son, Alejandro, was found dead Friday in a pond at the Miccosukee Golf & Country Club, the report said.

According to the Herald, the suspect told police a car had forced her vehicle off the road near the store, then two men jumped out of the vehicle and demanded drugs. She then said the men grabbed the boy and drove off when she couldn’t comply with their request.

But security footage from the Home Depot shows Ripley sitting alone in her car for 20 minutes before calling police at 8:47 p.m. Thursday, a source told the Herald. The woman eventually admitted being linked to the boy’s death, sources told the paper.

Source: Florida mom facing murder charge after autistic son, 9, found dead, police say