Storm Isaias – Nonverbal autistic girl Eliza Talal, 5, found dead after ‘wandering outside during storm flooding’
THE lifeless body of the missing nonverbal five-year-old girl with autism was found by police, after vanishing from her home the day prior, as Tropical Storm Isaias battered the region.
After a ground and air search, the body of Eliza Talal was found Wednesday morning by police in Fischer's Park, Pennsylvania, about two miles from her home.
Police said the girl may have been carried away at the creek behind her home swelled, eventually coming to a rest in a section of Towamencin Creek at Fischer's Park.
Cops launched a desperate search the moment the nonverbal autistic girl vanished from her home in middle of the storm.
Police feared she may have been at “special risk” of harm as she’s nonverbal and autistic.
“The tree came down and crushed everything," Cristian Lopez said. “He was a contractor doing work for us."
Lopez said he was renovating an apartment and was waiting for his son to come downstairs, adding Siles was there "maybe 20 minutes total."
“He was still inside the van,” Lopez said. “His body was crushed. When the cops came, his son walked up."
"They asked him if he knew the guy. He said, 'He’s my father,’ and then he collapsed.”
“Mario was a good, hard working guy,” Lopez told the News. “He was a plumber but all did all kinds of work. He did everything.”
The storm also knocked out power to more than 2.8million homes and businesses from New York to North Carolina, according to electric companies.
New York City, much of New Jersey, all of Massachusetts and other parts of New England all went under a tornado watch.
New York state officials temporarily shut down coronavirus testing centers as a precaution.