Two Bodies Found in Missing Boy Search

Roswell Police said today they have found two bodies believed to be a missing 4-year-old boy and his father in a case that is being called a murder-suicide. 

At a news conference late this morning, police said the bodies were discovered in a wooded area a half-mile from a Roswell apartment complex where Jesus Dominguez, 4, went missing following an attack on his mother Thursday.

The boy's father, Carlos Alberto Dominguez, was suspected of abducting the boy and an Amber Alert was issued Thursday night.

But a search of a wooded area near the boy's apartment in the 200 block of Old Holcomb Way resulted in the discovery of the bodies this morning.

Roswell Police Officer Lisa Holland said the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office has been called in to confirm their identities.

She said the boy's mother, who was unresponsive when police arrived at her apartment at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, is in critical condition and remains unconscious. 

At the news conference, Roswell Police Chief Rusty Grant said the bodies were located "off the beaten path" but were found as part of an intensive search effort by his officers and the GBI.

"It wasn't by chance, but part of our plan to search the woods," which are accessible by a series of trails connecting several apartment complexes in the area, Grant said. 

Holland said police were called to the apartment Thursday afternoon when the woman's sister grew concerned after not hearing from her. Holland estimated that the woman had been attacked several hours before police arrived to discover her seriously injured, and the boy missing.

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