Search continues for missing 7-year-old nearly a week after disappearing from Eastwood MetroPark

DAYTON — The search for 7-year-old Lucas Rosales continued Friday, nearly one week after he disappeared from Eastwood MetroPark.

Lucas was last seen Saturday evening while fishing with his family. Since then, searches have been conducted each day to try and find him.

David Rader, Director of Equusearch Midwest, said they have two sets of drones flying on the river all the way down to the mouth of the Great Miami River on Friday.

“It does look like it has come down quite a bit, so that’s kind of helping us clear areas,” Rader said. “It’s not so rough through the rapid areas, so it’s it’s giving us a little bit better vantage point and a look at different things.”

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After Friday’s operations are finished, Rader said they will reassess everything and see if they need to come back Saturday or Sunday.

“I do believe that there’s more rain expected by Sunday, so hopefully we can have a little bit better luck in trying to find this little guy,” Rader said.

Lucas’ dad and other family members were at the park Friday and wore shirts with his “missing poster” printed on them.