The family of missing youth has provided an update and some news.
The family of Darius Macdougall, the six-year-old who went missing while camping in Southern Alberta, have provided an update.
Their statement was posted to the Bring Darius Macdougall Home Facebook page, which provided new details about the day young Darius went missing, as well as new information about the loss of a family member.
Darius disappeared on September 21 while him and his family were camping with relatives in the Livingstone Public Land Use Zone.
According to the family, they had arrived two days earlier to celebrate several birthdays with grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Darius’ father, his father’s girlfriend, and the girlfriend’s daughter, Kya, were there with Darius.
His mother was not on the trip.
According to the family, Darius went missing while the family was packing up to leave.
“The family was packing up to get ready to leave the morning of September 21st, 2025. The kids were playing on the island adjacent the camp just across a creek where the adults could see them,” the post read.
The post goes on to say that Darius, Kya, and a cousin were walking and playing together with other kids nearby when Darius went missing.
“They turned their backs and Darius was gone,” the post adds. “The kids immediately notified camp and the father and grandfather took off in opposite directions looking for Darius, while the Grandmother called 911. Search and rescue were setting up within 20 minutes. We searched long into the night the first day hoping for a quick resolve to a very scary incident.”
After 11 days of search and rescue efforts, the Alberta RCMP and authorities ended the formal search for the missing six-year-old in Crowsnest Pass.
In the Facebook post, it also states that Kya has now passed in a separate tragic event.
According to an obituary for Kya, she passed in the Alberta children’s hospital in Calgary on October 10.
“This was an unexpected, horrible tragedy for a family already feeling broken from Darius disappearance,” the Facebook post adds. “We would like to thank the staff of Pincher Creek, STARS, and Albert Children’s Hospital for their love and care of Kya and the family.”
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