About 1,500 volunteers showed up at Kings Dominion this morning to help with the search of a missing autistic boy in Hanover County.
About 1,200 were assigned to search teams -- the maximum authorities can handle, Virginia State Police Sgt. Thomas J. Molnar said.
"An additional 300 folks that showed up today and who are not being utilized are being trained in the hopes that they will return tomorrow and they will be expedited through the registration process," Molnar said in a statement.
11:36 a.m.
Hanover County officials coordinating the search for a missing 8-year-old boy are hoping that 1,000 volunteers will come out by noon today to assist.
Nearly 1,700 people volunteered Tuesday and Wednesday to search for Robert Wood Jr., an autistic boy who is non-verbal. Hundreds turned out this morning but coordinators did not yet have a count.
Robert was last seen Sunday afternoon while on a walk in North Anna Battlefield Park with his father, brother, and a female friend of his father.
Capt. Michael Trice of the Hanover Sheriff’s Office said the search operation hopes to have covered 14 miles of the North Anna River with a dive team by the end of the day.
On Sunday, bloodhounds "alerted" on Robert's scent near the spot he disappeared, but the trail ended at the river. Searchers in kayaks and boats, as well as teams of cadaver dogs, are also searching the river.
(This has been a breaking news update. Check back for more details as they become available. Read more in tomorrow's Richmond Times-Dispatch.)
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