Trucker spots one-year-old 'miracle baby' crawling in a ditch after two days on the side of a road as child's brother is found dead in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl

A trucker driving done Louisiana was capable to spot a one-year-old 'miracle baby' crawling successful a ditch arsenic cops frantically searched for nan babe pursuing his brother's mysterious death.

The infant, whom his grandma identified arsenic Kingtrail, had to past stormy upwind arsenic Hurricane Beryl inundated nan area pinch dense rainfall and precocious upwind gusts connected Monday - but was comparatively unscathed erstwhile he was recovered Tuesday.

'We look astatine this one-year-old arsenic our occurrence babe because he was still alive,' Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Gary 'Stitch' Guillory said astatine a news conference, noting that nan babe had galore bug bites but different appeared to beryllium successful bully condition.

'This kid spent 2 days retired successful nan upwind connected nan broadside of a highway,' nan sheriff continued.

'Thank God that trucker seen him.'

Guillory explained that authorities had recovered nan infant's four-year-old relative successful a reservoir down a invited halfway adjacent nan Texas authorities statement connected Monday.

Deputies past put retired a BOLO for much accusation for nan young child's family, and a family from Mississippi reached retired - saying she was concerned it whitethorn person been her family member.

She besides mentioned for nan first clip that nan kid had a one-year-old sibling, and that nan 2 siblings were past seen pinch their mother, Aaliyah Jack, 25, connected Saturday.

At that point, officials started to interest that nan babe whitethorn besides beryllium dead, and were prepared connected Tuesday greeting to hunt nan reservoir wherever Legend had been found.

But nan deputies past received from an unidentified motortruck driver who said he spotted nan babe crawling connected nan broadside of Interstate 10.

'There was a small boy sitting down successful nan embankment there,' the driver told KPLC.

'As I approached him, he smiled astatine maine and past he started crying and walked toward me. Once he walked toward me, I grabbed his manus and he stopped crying astatine that point.' 

When deputies arrived, they were capable to positively nan place nan babe arsenic nan missing one-year-old. 

The boys' grandmother, Conswella Jack, said she is now trying to portion together what whitethorn person happened.

'I was truthful blessed to perceive nan babe survived, but besides truthful wounded because 1 is now gone,' she told The Arcadiana Advocate, describing Legend arsenic 'so saccharine and conscionable lovable.'

Conswella explained that her daughter, Aaliyah, had ineligible custody of nan 2 boys, but aft she fell connected difficult times successful April and fled to Baton Rouge, they had a communal statement that Conswella and nan children's different grandma would watch complete them until she could get backmost connected her feet.

'I retrieve asking her why she [was] successful Baton Rouge, and each she said was she had obscurity other to go,' Conswella recounted.

'So Legend's grandma went to get her kids from Baton Rouge and aft that, we each met up. I took Kingtrail and Legend went pinch his [other] grandmother, and Aaliyah went her abstracted way.'

They past met up connected Saturday for Conswella's mother's funeral.

That is when, Conswella said, her girl fled pinch nan 2 boys.

'The adjacent day, which was Sunday, aft trying to telephone her, she yet reaches retired to me, but it's a text,' nan heartbroken grandma said.

'She sent maine a image of a car successful immoderate bushes that benignant of looked for illustration it was wrecked. I was confused, truthful I called, called and called, and could not scope her.' 

Police opportunity location was nary motion of foul play successful Legend's death, but autopsy reports are pending.

Still, a warrant was issued for Aaliyah's apprehension Monday night, charging her pinch nonaccomplishment to study a missing child.

She was taken into custody connected Tuesday successful Meridian, Mississippi - much than 350 miles from wherever her children were found.

She was group to beryllium extradited backmost to Louisiana, but Aaliyah is now fighting nan extradition order, KPLC reports.

In bid to person her look nan criminal complaint successful Louisiana, Gov. Jeff Landry would now person to nonstop a missive to Mississippi officials stating nan request for her to return.

If she does get sent backmost to Louisiana, she would look a $300,000 bond.  

In nan meantime, Kingtrail has been released from a section infirmary and is successful authorities custody arsenic his grandma fights to return him home.

She described nan business arsenic 'stressful,' noting: 'I don't moreover person nan costs for it, truthful I person to do everything I tin to get that babe back, because ain't cipher cognize him for illustration we cognize him.'