The day after a 12-day, multi-agency search to find a missing autistic boy ended with the discovery of his body in a New Orleans East lagoon, another quest has launched to determine where the blame should lie in what NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick has deemed a "failure."

The New Orleans coroner determined Bryan Vasquez, 12, died from blunt force trauma and drowning sustained during an alligator attack. The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries was asked to eradicate "nuisance alligators" in the waterway near the 13000 block of Sevres Street, where the child's body was found, Kirkpatrick said at a Wednesday media briefing.

New Orleans police confirmed that Bryan’s mother, Hilda Vasquez, has been served with a search warrant and had her phone confiscated as part of the unclassified

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