The Virginian-Pilot
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              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Thursday, August 22, 1996             TAG: 9608220392
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B3   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: NORFOLK                           LENGTH:   17 lines

MISSING BOY SOUGHT

Police and volunteers fanned out over East Ocean View on Wednesday night looking for a missing 5-year-old boy.

Alex Harris was last seen about 6:30 p.m. while on an outing with his grandmother, siblings and neighbors at the East Ocean View Recreation Center at the end of 20th Bay Street. The boy suffers from a mild form of Down's syndrome.

The boy is described as light-skinned with reddish-tinted hair and was wearing a red polo shirt and black sneakers.

KEYWORDS: MISSING CHILD MISSING PERSONS by CNB