Ryker Webb Wiki – Ryker Webb Biography
Ryker Webb was “hungry, thirsty, and cold” when he was found by search crews on Sunday, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said. Ryker Webb “was in good spirits and apparently healthy” when he was found Sunday on Pine Ridge Road off South Fork Bull River Road in Sanders County, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in a news release that day.
The boy had been last seen Friday while “playing with the family dog in the yard outside the home” on the east side of Bull Lake near the 18 mile-marker on Highway 56, according to a post on the department’s Facebook page after little Ryker was reported missing.
Ryker Webb Age
Ryker Webb is 2 years old.
Ryker Webb Parents – Found Alive
Ryker Webb, the 3-year-old boy who was found safe in Montana after two days on his own, survived by seeking shelter in a shed, an official told TODAY Parents.
Ryker was reported missing Friday afternoon and found on Sunday, roughly two miles from his home in the small town of Troy in northwestern Montana, according to Lincoln County Sheriff Darren Short. (Authorities originally reported that Ryker is 4, but he is actually 3, Short said.)
The redheaded toddler was discovered by a family that was checking on their cabin. They heard a little boy’s voice from the shed out back where they keep a generator,” Short said. “So they went to the shed and there he was.”
When Short arrived on the scene, he said Ryker was visibly shaken.
“He was very, very scared,” Short revealed, noting that mountain lions and bears inhabit the area. There were also severe thunderstorms on the evening Ryker went missing. Temperatures dipped into the 40s. The shed where he took shelter was a very old log cabin-type structure, Short said.
Short asked Ryker several questions and the little boy shared that he went for a long walk by himself and then he got tired. Short recalled how Ryker’s “eyes lit up” at the mention of being reunited with his parents.
Ryker was reported missing Friday afternoon and found on Sunday, roughly two miles from his home in the small town of Troy in northwestern Montana, according to Lincoln County Sheriff Darren Short.
The redheaded toddler was discovered by a family that was checking on their cabin.
“They heard a little boy’s voice from the shed out back where they keep a generator,” Short said. “So they went to the shed and there he was.”
When Short arrived on the scene, he said Ryker was visibly shaken.
“He was very, very scared,” Short revealed, noting that mountain lions and bears inhabit the area. There were also severe thunderstorms on the evening Ryker went missing. Temperatures dipped into the 40s. The shed where he took shelter was a very old log cabin-type structure, Short said.
Short asked Ryker several questions and the little boy shared that he went for a long walk by himself and then he got tired. “He had the wide-eyed scared look until he got back to his mom and dad,” Short said.
Ryker was taken to Cabinet Peaks Medical Center for evaluation, but has since been discharged. The case is still open, Short said. He said authorities want to know why Ryker’s parents waited “at least two hours” to report him missing.
“We’re still looking into why he disappeared, and why he wasn’t being watched closely,” Short said.
The boy was “hungry, thirsty, and cold” when he was discovered by deputies, the sheriff’s office said. A Bull Lake Volunteer Ambulance transported him to Cabinet Peaks Medical Center to be evaluated by doctors.
Although authorities initially said he was 4, Lincoln County Sheriff Darren Short told Today he is actually 3. The LCSO was alerted to Webb’s disappearance just before 5 p.m. on Friday when “a concerned neighbor” reported “a possible missing child in the Bull Lake area, according to Sunday’s news release, shared on Facebook.
Sheriff Short said the boy and his father “were in the yard” together when the father “went inside the home for a moment,” according to KREM-TV. When he returned, the dad realized his son “was gone.” Webb “had already been missing for more than 2 hours” when LCSO deputies and David Thompson Search and Rescue responded to the report, the sheriff’s office said.
Neighbors were issued a Code Red Alert and asked to “search their own properties and structures” for the missing boy.
More than 50 people “were actively searching” for Webb when officials were told that he had possibly been spotted, per Sunday’s release.
Search crews also utilized all-terrain vehicles, “several drones and dog teams” and “a boat unit on the lake” as they looked for Webb, they said. Two Montana Air National Guard helicopters and drones from Flathead County and Spokane Police joined the search on Saturday.
But adverse weather conditions complicated the search from the start, according to the sheriff’s office. “It was extremely difficult to get the additional air assets into the Bull Lake valley due to very poor weather conditions which consisted of rain, low visibility, and low ceiling,” the department said on Sunday.
Additionally, “dense vegetation” made the area “extremely difficult to search” the area, the LCSO said.
The LCSO thanked more than a dozen agencies “and the large group of experienced outdoorsmen and families who responded from Sanders County” for assisting in the search for Webb.
The sheriff’s office also thanked the Halfway House, Stillwater Christian Church, Rosauers “and many others” for providing “meals and support” while Webb was missing.
