Since the weekend, police have worked to find who may have sent the ransom messages. According to the Virginia Beach Police Department, investigators partnered with federal officials to trace the source to someone outside the U.S.; police said the messages were “a scam to obtain money from a family in distress.”

A Virginia Beach 12-year-old boy who police believed initially may have been abducted died from accidental drowning, according to the Office of

The Tidewater Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death of Juan Sebastian Mejia Acevedo an accidental drowning. The boy’s body was recovered from an icy pond Monday, three days after