The Good Samaritan explains how he found 3-year-old Christopher Ramirez

GRIMES COUNTY, Texas –Christopher Ramirez, three, was found alive on Saturday morning and reunited with his mother. The toddler went missing in Plantersville on Wednesday October 6.

At around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Christopher went missing near his home in the 10,000 block of Deer Park Lane in Grimes County. The child’s family told MPs that Christopher disappeared moments after he returned home with his mother and grandmother – the trio had gone shopping. As the women unloaded the car, the boy, who wore a bright green shirt and Mickey Mouse shoes, chased a neighbor’s puppy out of sight of adults. When the dog returned and Christopher didn’t, the family and their neighbors started looking for him. After about 20 unsuccessful minutes, the family contacted the Grimes County Sheriff’s Office for assistance.

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The deputies, assisted by several K-9 units, responded and conducted a ground search throughout the evening and into the night. Several other agencies (including the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation) and over 100 volunteers quickly joined in the search. The large group toured the area several times over the next few days. Drones and helicopters were used to monitor the wooded area from above. The deputies emptied several ponds. Despite their efforts, Christopher remained missing until Saturday morning, when a Good Samaritan named Tim found the boy near FM 1486, north of State Highway 249.

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Although Christopher went missing on Wednesday, Tim said he first heard about the missing child on Friday night during a group Bible study.

“Last night I was in a Bible study that we have every other Friday and there were a number of people talking about these little boys who were lost and that was news to me,” Tim said. . “This is the first time I’ve heard of it. I don’t care about the news or anything, and the Spirit then prompted me to say, ‘You’ll go get that boy. You will search the woods.

“So I got up this morning, I did my Bible study, my devotional time, my prayer time, like I try to do every day and my wife came in and told me ‘ ‘are you going to do today?’ And I said, ‘I’m going to go out into the woods and see if I can find this boy.’ And, and I did.

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Tim said he left his home around 9:45 am and found the boy about two hours later at around 11:30 am He said he found the child near a pipeline.

“He was probably about 10 yards in the woods,” Tim said. “I was walking on a pipeline and I heard a noise. But it looked like it could be an animal in distress. Sometimes deer will do that – they will kind of make noises like you think maybe it is human. So I walk a little further and listen really loudly. I want to hear a child, right? And then I hear what sounds like a human child in distress. But I couldn’t understand the words. Turns out he only speaks Spanish and I couldn’t understand what he might have said. Every time I heard it, I would shout “Hello, hello! »But I did not get an answer.

As soon as Tim heard the noise again, he called the authorities and told them the child might be there.

“They got out and I told them where to go and they started looking and I heard the noise in the pipeline a little further to the right and they were doing their thing. They were yelling at Christopher and now I know his name.

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“So as I walk down the pipeline back home, I hear the noise and I’m like ‘this is weird’,” Tim said.

That’s when Tim started calling Christopher.

“This time I got a response,” Tim said. “Before that, I never got a response when I screamed. But I called his name and he answered and he kept talking and talking and I just walked through the thickness of the woods and found him.

Tim found the boy in a grassy area.

“I picked him up and he was totally naked – No shoes, no clothes, nothing. . . Three days without food or water. . I picked him up and he wasn’t shaking, he wasn’t nervous, ”Tim said. “He was calm.

“There were many people in this community who prayed for this little boy. Many had given up hope and the story is not to give up hope and God is still in the realm of miracles, ”Tim said. “He always answers prayer.

See all of KPRC 2’s coverage of Christopher’s research here.