UPDATE (March 8, 2022):
Police in Fort Wayne are looking for what went wrong with their emergency alert system over the weekend.
On Sunday night, people got a string of alerts from police on their phones.
One of them was for a missing 10-year-old, but another was from an older case about a different missing child.
Fort Wayne Police spokesman Jeremy Webb says the department is looking into how the old message got re-sent. He said this is not the first time the department has had an issue with its alert system.
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ORIGINAL STORY:
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (ADAMS) – The search for a missing child in Fort Wayne is over. Police say ten-year-old So Heit came back home about 12:20 this morning. He’d been reported missing just 30 minutes earlier.
Some residents received confusing alerts issued by police on devices. One message was similar to mixed emergency message alerts that have happened in the past.
And as in the past, Fort Wayne police say they were mistakenly sent.
No one is saying where the boy went although initially, police believed he may have been with his father.
Fort Wayne Police are not saying if there’s any further investigation.
