Family members of one of the two 6-year-old boys left behind at a local movie theater following a Recreation & Parks outing have said they’ve met with recreation staff, but they’re not satisfied with answers they’ve gotten.
On June 15, about noon, RCE Movie Theater employees located the boys after the larger group had left the building following the movie; camera footage showed the group in the parking lot returning to two vans and a school bus while the two boys were walking – then running – through the halls, apparently searching for the group.
Neither child could provide a parent’s or guardian’s phone number, and the theater employees contacted the recreation and parks staff to inform them that the boys were still at the theater.
On June 22, the mother of one of the boys posted on social media that her son had informed her that day of what had happened, but she didn’t get a call from anyone from the recreation and parks department.
The boys remained at the theater for about 30 minutes until a staff member returned to pick them up.
The theater employees appeared to keep both boys comfortable, and everyone remained calm during the half hour or so that the children were separated from their group.
And, to the boys’ credit, they never ventured outside the building.
WIZS News has reached out to Henderson-Vance Recreation & Parks Director Kendrick Vann for a comment; we’ll update this story with more information when that happens. He did say to WIZS preliminarily, the matter is “still an ongoing investigation.”
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