AK SAWYER CIPOLLA: Missing from Kodiak, AK - 7 May 2022 - Age 7 *Found Deceased*

Nearly a thousand volunteers join the ongoing search for missing 7-year-old boy in Kodiak

Sawyer Cipolla went missing Saturday afternoon.

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Nearly a thousand volunteers join the ongoing search for missing 7-year-old boy in Kodiak​

Hundreds of people in Kodiak continue to search for 7-year-old Sawyer Cipolla.

Cipolla went missing Saturday afternoon near his home off Three Sisters Way, in a heavily wooded part of the island.

Alaska State Troopers are in charge of the ongoing search, which nearly 1,000 volunteers have joined since Cipolla was reported missing, according to troopers spokesman Tim DeSpain. That includes local pilots, ground searchers and horseback teams, plus various members of local law enforcement, Kodiak Island Search and Rescue, Coast Guard Base Kodiak and U.S. Navy Seals. K9 teams from Anchorage and Mat-Su are also assisting.

Cipolla was last seen wearing gray pants, an Under Armour brand camouflage hoodie and hiking boots, said troopers. He is white with brown hair and brown eyes, and is four and a half feet tall.

Sawyer is autistic and searchers were told he responds to the name “Brigadier,” or vocal howling. He also answers to the phrase “come on in.”

On Sunday, dozens of people gathered outside the Bayside Volunteer Fire Department — just outside of Kodiak city limits — to help with the search. New arrivals were assigned to a search team before heading out into the field. The group included families with children. For some, like Kodiak resident Jingkie Christescu, Sunday was their second day searching, and it was more coordinated than the day before.

Search Continues for Missing Child on Kodiak Island for Third Day - Alaska Native News

The Kodiak search, now in its third day, for 7-year-old Sawyer Cipolla, has yet to gain any results for the estimated 950 ground searchers, pilots and horseback teams that combed the Monashka Bay and surrounding areas through the weekend and today. Sawyer, described as autistic, was last seen at...

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Search Continues for Missing Child on Kodiak Island for Third Day​

The Kodiak search, now in its third day, for 7-year-old Sawyer Cipolla, has yet to gain any results for the estimated 950 ground searchers, pilots and horseback teams that combed the Monashka Bay and surrounding areas through the weekend and today.

Sawyer, described as autistic, was last seen at his home on Forest Drive just prior to noon on Saturday. He was reported as missing approximately 30 minutes later at 12:20 pm. Troopers immediately responded and searched without success. By 6:45 pm that evening there were approximately 100 searchers looking for Sawyer.


MEDIA - SAWYER CIPOLLA: Missing from Kodiak, AK since 7 May 2022 - Age 7

 

[GrandmaBear]

I think maybe became most deaths in the area are due to that. Or thought as a child he would be curious and not know the dangers. But that should be a possibility, Not a conclusion.

Kodiak, Alaska isn't somewhere you'd want to lose track of a child. That's not a judgment, just a fact. I'm surprised they speculated he went off a cliff before speculation of a Kodiak bear also or wildlife. it is one of the most wild and rugged of places depending on the part of the island as I understand it. I know people who lived there and while beautiful I gather, it is a wild natural habitat, mountainous, forested, and of course an island surrounded by water.