A two-year-old boy is dead after being found in a creek near his Mitchell County home late last week.

Deputies from the Mitchell County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a missing toddler in a rural area of Mitchell County north of the City of Beloit around 8:45pm last Thursday. First responders from several communities then converged on the scene in an effort to help locate the child. The boy was found unresponsive in a water-filled creek near his home around 1:30 on Friday morning. Later that day, Mitchell County Sheriff Anthony Perez confirmed that the boy had died as a result of the incident.