Lowering Little Calumet River key to finding missing 12-year-old boy, police say: ‘It’s very sad. We’re all very affected.’

Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. speaks during a press conference on Tuesday, May 25, 2021 regarding Kyrin Carter, the 12-year-old autistic boy from Kansas City, Missouri, who went missing in Hammond earlier this month. His body was discovered Monday evening in the Little Calumet River. (Michael Gard/Post-Tribune) (Michael Gard / Post-Tribune)