Steve Ranson/Nevada Appeal News ServiceA small poster describing 6-year-old Apollo Fuller was posted at the entrance of Lahontan State Park after he disappeared Saturday while camping with his family. Authorities on Monday recovered the boy's body.
SILVER SPRINGS - The body of a 6-year-old Reno boy missing since Saturday was recovered by authorities just after 5 p.m. Monday at Lake Lahontan.
Lyon County Sheriff's spokesman Rob Hall said campers on Beach Three noticed something in the water just before 5 p.m. and alerted park rangers who then called police.
Park rangers identified the object as a body, and police removed it when they arrived.
Hall said, "The body matches a photograph that we have of A.J. Fuller," the missing boy.
Apollo "A.J." Fuller was last seen by family at 1:53 p.m. on the Fourth of July. Initially, authorities thought the boy was either lost or had possibly been abducted. By Sunday, it was determined more likely that A.J. had drowned.
Crews scoured the water and shoreline around Beach Three, where the little tow-headed boy had been camping with his family, until about 8 p.m. Sunday.
Monday morning the search had been scaled back and one state park boat was on the water patrolling the area where the boy had gone missing.
Park supervisor Rob Holley said the boat would patrol the area from dawn until dusk, "until he is found."
Hall said the boy was recovered 71 feet north and 51 feet east from where he was last seen playing on a water trampoline.
Next of kin have been notified and Hall said the family is en route to the park.
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