Body of 11-year-old Calgary boy missing for two weeks found in water pipe

CALGARY — Calgary police Chief Katie McLellan says an 11-year-old boy who disappeared two weeks ago in a northside neighbourhood has been found dead.

McLellan says the boy named Parker was discovered in a water pipe underneath Deerfoot Trail, the city’s major north-south expressway.

McLellan says it appears Parker, who had autism and was non-verbal, wandered into a deep culvert then into a series of pipes.

She says police searched the area after receiving a tip that the boy’s shoe had been found nearby.