The body of 8-year-old MJ Ashmead was recovered from a pond in Celina on Friday afternoon, ending a search that began after his family reported him missing earlier in the day from their home in the Rostherne Drive area of the Sutton Field neighborhood.

Celina police said Ashmead was identified after the recovery, and family members were notified just after noon that his body had been located in a pond near the subdivision. The search had already drawn in multiple agencies, with dive teams, air support, K-9 units and drone teams all working the neighborhood around Wilder Avenue and Sandown Drive as word spread that the child had vanished.

The Celina Police Department posted about Ashmead at about 11:15 a.m., asking the public for help in finding him. By then, officers, firefighters and outside responders were combing the area, including the Celina Police Department and the Celina Fire Department, Texas Department of Public Safety air support, the Collin County Sheriff's Office dive team, the Frisco Police Department K-9 unit, the Hickory Creek Police Department K-9 unit, the Prosper Police Department drone team, the Lewisville Fire Department dive team and the Prosper ISD Police Department.

Police spokesman John Thacker said no foul play is suspected in the tragedy, a conclusion that narrows the official response even as it leaves the most important question unanswered: how the boy ended up in the pond. Thacker said the department and fire crews, along with the city of Celina, extended condolences to the family, adding that the community is close-knit and that a loss like this cuts to the core of who Celina is.

For now, investigators were not immediately providing more information, and the search that started as a missing-child call has turned into a death investigation that is likely to draw attention across celina tx. The immediate task for police is not finding Ashmead now, but determining what happened in the hours between the morning report and the afternoon recovery.