ANDREW KRAEMER - 10 yo - Lufkin TX

A search is underway for a ten year old boy who failed to come home
from school. His name is Andrew Kraemer and he stands 4’9” and weighs
60 pounds. He has blond hair and blue eyes and has not been seen since
school let out Wednesday, December 16, 2009.

The Lufkin
Police have been scouring the Brookhollow neighborhood in a desperate
search for the child. A reverse 911 call was issued asking all citizens
to be alert and to help in the search.According to reports by
Lufkin Police Department Spokesman Lt. David Young, Andrew’s father
waited for his son to come out of school but the boy never showed up.
It is assumed he exited through a different door at the Brookhollow
Elementary School.
Andrew was last seen wearing an orange
pullover shirt and was carrying a blue and white backpack with a red
jacket. He may have put the red jacket on as the temperature has
dropped.If you have any information regarding the whereabouts of
Andrew Kraemer you are asked to call the Lufkin, Texas police at
936-633-0356.

Lufkin Police are searching the Brookhollow neighborhood for a
missing 10-year-old boy who has not been seen since school let out
Wednesday afternoon.Andrew Kraemer is approximately 4'9", 60 pounds and has blond hair and blue eyes.
He was last seen wearing an orange pullover shirt, khaki pants and tennis shoes, and he was carrying a blue and white backpack.Police say Kraemer has a red jacket that he may have put on or put inside his backpack.Lt. David Young said there were about 20 LPD officers searching the neighborhood as of 6 p.m., including the chief of police."If
this was my kid, I would want as many people out as possible," Young
said. "You just can't take the chance. We take this seriously, but we
also expect the best outcome."Officers from other agencies are also involved in the search, and Young said a message is scrolling on Lufkin Cable Channel 15.Young
said Kraemer's father went to Brookhollow Elementary to pick his son up
from school, but he never came out. Students said he had been in class
all day.A reverse 911 call went out to residents who live in Brookhollow, asking for everyone to be on the lookout.

Law enforcement late
Wednesday found a 10-year-old boy who went missing that afternoon when
his father arrived to pick him up from Brookhollow Elementary,
according Lufkin Police.
Few details were available, but the boy turned up at the school
around 9:30 p.m. when someone returned him to the campus in a vehicle,
Lt. David Young said.
More details are expected to be released Thursday morning following
further investigation. The boy was being returned home safe to his
family.

A scary story had a good ending for the holidays for a missing boy and the Good Samaritan who found him.
When a 10-year-old boy went missing at the end of the day from
Brookhollow School on Wednesday, the search for him began. Police,
sheriff's deputies, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers,
citizens and representatives from all kinds of agencies spent the next
several hours combing Lufkin, hoping for the best but fearing the worst.
As night fell early for the winter evening, helicopters circled the
Brookhollow neighborhood with infrared cameras, and police dogs
searched the woods. Police officers continued fanning out across town,
checking everywhere they could think of.
Neighbors in the Brookhollow area wanted to join in, including Chris
Logan and Kim Simmons, coworkers from the Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Council of Deep East Texas.
Logan said one of his sons had called to tell him about the missing
boy, and right after he got home from work, he and his wife, Laura,
were talking about it — as helicopters circled overhead.
Logan and Simmons decided they would try to find out how they could help.
"She was going to go over to the school to see if there was any kind of search party, or efforts being put together," he said.
There were lots of cars moving around, but they couldn't find out
anything, so the two decided to just start looking. After 45 minutes
without turning anything up, they decided to split up. Logan went back
to his truck.
"I turned around to go back home, and he was right there in front of
me, with his backpack on," Logan said. "It kind of took me a little
whilte to register that it was actually him."
Logan said he found the missing boy between Hummingbird and Bluebird streets, moving away from Brookhollow.
"I rolled down the window and asked him what his name was, and he
said, 'Andrew.' I asked him what his last name was. ... I said, 'Did
you know there's a lot of people looking for you?'"
Lufkin Police Lt. David Young said the boy told police he was hiding
in the woods and got scared because he thought he'd in get trouble, so
he didn't call out to searchers.
Logan was on the phone with Simmons when he found the boy.
"I just couldn't believe what was happening. I told her to get over
there right away. But then I got him right in m truck no problem, and
just took off and drove him to Brookhollow," Logan said. "We got in the
middle of the crowd and I said, 'I found him!' His mom came running up,
and that was it. It was surreal."
Logan said the boy's mom came by ADAC Thursday morning for a big thank you, which included a dozen Shipley doughnuts.
Logan said he didn't talk to the boy on the quick ride back to
school — he was too focused on getting him safely to his parents. But
according to his mother, apparently the child had been afraid of
getting in trouble over some homework problems, then was more afraid
when he saw police looking for him. It was the search dogs who flushed
him out of the woods, according to what a Lufkin Police detective told
him, Logan said.
"He thought he was going to get in bigger trouble, so he (had) just stayed hidden," Logan said.
Having two children of his own, and Simmons also having children of
her own, Logan said they just couldn't wrap their minds around what it
must have been like to have a child go missing.
Logan said they had decided recently not to let one of their
children ride a bike alone to school, just being too uncomfortable for
his safety.
"And then this happened. It was pretty wild. I would never have
thought in a million years we would have found him only a block away
from school. Definitely a good ending, with the holidays," Logan said.
Young said police were pleased that it ended well.
"And that he's home safe, where he belongs," Young said.