A missing 12-year-old autistic boy was believed to have been killed by an alligator in a canal near his home in New Orleans as police investigate his mother.
Bryan Vasquez's body was found on Tuesday morning as his death was described as a 'failure' by New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick.
Vasquez was determined to have died from blunt force trauma and drowned following an alligator attack after he went missing on August 14 at around 5.20am.
'I think that the death of Bryan is a failure. I think it is," Kirkpatrick said Tuesday, NOLA reported.
'And as I said, we're going to look at everything. I mean, everything.'
