The IAN Alert, which notifies people when a child with an intellectual disability or mental illness is missing or endangered, was issued after Silas Chearer was reported missing. State police said he was last seen walking away from his home in Cub Run in Hart County around 8 a.m. Tuesday.

The child was reported missing in Cub Run, Kentucky Tuesday morning, but was found about 30 minutes after the alert was issued.

A new alert designed to help save the lives of children with autism is now in effect in Kentucky. The alert is called an Ian Alert. It’s named for Ian Sousis, a 9-year-old boy who had autism. He ran away from the Children’s Home of Northern Kentucky and drowned in the Ohio River on June 4, 2022.

An IAN Alert was issued in Kentucky on Tuesday for a missing 5-year-old boy, and now troopers say he has been found dead.

The man accused of a shooting rampage Sunday at a rural Kentucky church after wounding a state trooper had been expected in court Monday for a domestic violence hearing, a local official said.