Carnel Chamberlain: Body of 4-year-old found

The body of four-year-old Carnel Chamberlain, who has been missing for a week, was found under the wood porch at his Michigan home.

Searchers from local, state and federal agencies had checked woods, ponds and wastewater treatment pools while searching for the missing boy, reported the Associated Press. Carnel disappeared on June 21 while being watched by his mother's boyfriend. He was a member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe and lived in a house on the reservation, 70 miles north of Lansing.

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Family spokesman Kevin Chamberlain said tribal police confirmed it was Carnel's body that was found on Thursday underneath the porch of the boy's home, which he shared with his mother and her boyfriend on East Tomah Road on the Isabella Reservation, according to Michigan's NBC25.

The FBI and technicians from the Michigan State Police crime lab were at the home that is just east of Mt. Pleasant, which was surrounded by yellow crime-scene tape Thursday afternoon, reported central Michigan's Morning Sun. Tribal police cleared people from the area as investigators set up high-power lights in order to start their physical investigation of the scene.

The Morning Sun also reported that the candlelight vigil scheduled earlier for Carnel will still be held. It will take place at the Tribal Operations building located at Leaton and Broadway roads, beginning at 9 p.m.