PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WHDH) - A 5-year-old girl who was reported missing in Providence late Wednesday night has been found dead, police say.
Naomi Thomas was reported missing after she was last seen walking away from her family’s home around 11:15 p.m.
Police spent hours overnight searching Roger Williams Park before finding her around 4:30 a.m. near the swan boats. She was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital soon afterwards.
“We’re all confused right now,” said James Shelton, a cousin of the 5-year-old. “No words can express – I don’t even know how to face my aunt right now, I don’t even know what to say to her.”
“She was just a child – a beautiful little girl,” another relative told 7NEWS Thursday morning.
No additional information from authorities was immediately available.
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