He had been with two other students and three staff members at the time – the staff members tried to give chase but lost track of him.

Ran from school

Greenville County Sheriff’s Office launched a search effort to find Lionel, but it’s since been reported that said effort ended in tragedy.

At 2:10 p.m., the department wrote: “Lionel is still missing. While we are continuing our search efforts, we ask that community members who are asking to help in the search not get out of their vehicles to begin searching ‘on foot,’ as we do have dogs on the ground who operate off a scent. The biggest ask is for people to check their property and camera systems to see if they had any activity on them that might have captured Lionel’s movements.”

Then, at