Crews Find Body Of 5-Year-Old Swept Away In Cimarron River

The body of a missing 5-year-old boy has been recovered from the Cimarron River, Kingfisher County sheriff said Sunday night.

Kingfisher County Sheriff Dennis Banther said the 5-year-old boy was spending the 4th of July holiday with his family along the bank of the Cimarron River when he went under the water around 5 p.m. Saturday and never resurfaced.

“It's always difficult when you're working with a child,” Banther said. “But it's just the nature of the job, something we have to do but it's not something we want to do.”

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Crews with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and Dover Fire Department assisted the Kingfisher County Sheriff’s Department with the search. OHP used its sonar technology, boats and divers to scour every inch of the water.