SAN ANTONIO, Texas – A neighbor recounts the moments that led to her son finding the body of a 2-year-old girl who was reported missing in San Antonio on Monday, KSAT News reports.
An AMBER Alert for Aryana Trevino Martinez was issued Sunday after she disappeared around 7 p.m. in the 4000 block of Allegheny Drive in San Antonio, Texas, according to the San Antonio Police Department.
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The girl was later found unresponsive in a brush area around midnight on Monday near the area where she disappeared. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
An SAPD investigator told KSAT News that Martinez was located in an overgrown, water-filled creek area. The investigator said she was captured on video walking alone in an alley before her death.
Neighbor describes moments her son found Aryana
Anna Marie Ramirez and Uriel Ramirez, 22, neighbors of Aryana, told KSAT News Uriel found the girl unresponsive in an overgrown, water-filled creek area.
Anna said her son took higher ground by standing on top of a rock to look over the weeds.
“I just kept saying, ‘Please don’t be there. Please don’t be there. Please don’t be there,’” she recalled her son saying.
As soon as he looked over, he found Martinez.
“I can’t even put it into words,” Uriel Ramirez told KSAT. “She’s like an angel and something led me straight to her, like a direct shot. My brain was just — that’s where she is.”
Anna told KSAT News her son “jumped in the creek, not knowing how deep it was, and just picked (Martinez) up and just ran out of the water with her.”
She said she saw her son running back with Martinez in his arms yelling, “I found her.”
First responders conducted CPR on Martinez before an ambulance arrived, Anna told KSAT reporters.
Aryana’s cause and manner of death remain under investigation.
The AMBER Alert was canceled around 3 a.m. Monday.
Authorities have not released any further information about Aryana’s death.