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Death of autistic 8-year-old outrages Garland residentsGARLAND,- Texas (AP) —The apparent slaying of 8-year-old Kim Nguyen has stirred the emotions of Garland residents, hundreds of whom volunteered their time to search for the missing autistic boy.“Whoever did it, they have messed with the wrong city, and they will pay for the crime,” Garland Mayor Bob Smith said.“It hurts to know that it turned cut like this,” said Eric Pierce, a volunteer who wore a T-shirt with Kim’s picture on it. More than 350 similar shirts weremade with funds from an unidentified donor.Police believe a nude, partially decomposed body that was found in a field east of Dallas is Kim. Thev announced Fridav that thev— v'consider the case to be a homicide. although the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Officehadn’t made a positive identification as of Friday.Kim is believed to have walked away from his family’s Garland home about 7 a.m. July 18 wearing only a blue and brown plaid shirt. The shirt later was found about a mile from his home.“We do not have a cause of death yet, but we are operating on the assumption that it’s a homicide,” Garland Police Chief Terry Hensley said. “It’s unrealistic to believe that a nude boy would walk 12 miles to that field and collapse. He had to get there some way.”Hensley said police have no suspects and no motives. But they’re asking residents;fbr..help-‘1 There ’ s some one out there• .w *that has noticed that there is a person they know acting strangely since Kim disappeared,” saidHensley. “People don’t do this kind of thing without people knowing it.”Residents already have shown that they’re eager to help. Kim’s disappearance prompted a week-long search led by police and hundreds of volunteers, who scoured creeks, woods and sewer runnels.After police wound down the search and concluded that he was not within the two-mile search radius, volunteers continued to mail and post fliers throughout Garland and nearby cities.Rudolph Nguyen, who had searched for his son daily until the early morning hours, said he was. angry but not vengeful toward his son’s attacker.“I had hoped that because he was a handicapped boy that they wouldn’t kill him,” he said.
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