Tragedy after autistic boy, 9, ran away from school and saw a lagoon

A small community is demanding change after an autistic nine-year-old escaped school and drowned in a nearby lagoon.

Kendrix Brehmer, a non-verbal third grade student at Northeast Elementary School in the rural town of Lyons, managed to slip away from recess on Monday.

He snuck out of the schoolyard gate and sprinted off before anyone could stop him, superintendent Lindsey Beaudette told his sorrowful father, Matthew Brehmer, over the phone.

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