Loic rogers update

Tim Stracener officiating. Loic's maternal family is having a celebration of life and potluck at 6 p. Kurt Rau officiating. The family wants to be able to personally thank as many people as possible for the tremendous outpouring of love and effort in the search for Loic. Box , Kalispell, MT All Sections Home. Breaking News. Click here for more information on the Amber Alert for Loic Undersheriff Pete Wingert said the father told authorities he took the boy to the car and went back inside to get Loic's sibling.

When he returned to the car, Loic was gone. When last seen, Loic was wearing a red, white and blue coat, blue jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt, tan leather boots and a multi-colored beanie hat.

Loic is 3 feet tall and has blond hair and blue eyes. More than people, mostly volunteers, were helping search for the boy. Monkey Junky Offline Posts: Oh My, this isnt good. Snatched right out of the car? An Amber Alert is in affect, and the Child is Missing phone system has also been notified after Loic Rogers disappeared Wednesday night. Loic Rogers has blonde hair and blue eyes, and was last seen wearing a red, white and blue jacket, a green knit hat and tan winter boots.

We're also told that he has a scar on his chin. Hundreds of people are searching from house-to-house, and yard-to -yard, looking for footprints that could resemble the 3-year-old's boots. Loic Rogers disappeared at p.

Wednesday, when his father says that he was loading the children into the car to leave a friends house. After searching for about 20 minutes, he called for help. If someone did take off with his son, he has a message for them. At a Thursday morning news conference police said that the parents are divorced, and that they are NOT suspected in having any involvment in the incident.

Also, there were reports of a salesman in the area when the abduction occurred, but police say he has been cleared of any involvment. Loic Rogers died last week, his 3-year-old body found, after days of community searches, drowned in the septic tank of a friend's house.

The Loic greeting family and friends Thursday at New Covenant Fellowship Church was a Loic in photographic time stood still, everyday moments in a forever now, captured without hint of his future.

Thursday was not a day for police questions or disturbing mysteries, not for the who and the how and the why that has consumed so many hours. The Rev. Tim Stracener, pastor here, dismissed the unknowns. Some questions, he said, will not be answered until we meet our creator, face to face. There were firemen and friends, sisters and Sunday school teachers, strangers who had never met Loic, but had joined the searches that brought hundreds of volunteers to this east Kalispell neighborhood.

At a service organized by Loic's father, Mark Rogers, they remembered a boy who loved cars and trucks, and who came standard with a full set of sound effects. They remembered a boy who was a world-class hugger, who was always true-blue honest, who had one of the finest toddler collections of Hawaiian shirts this side of the islands. They remembered him with prayer and with song and with dance, even, and they remembered him with Mark, his father and constant companion, a pair they said shared a special and intense bond.

But Mark is long separated from Loic's mom, Ariel, and across town, once the church service let out, she and many of the same people gathered for a more casual memorial. Against the smell of good food cooking, a couple hundred people packed the kitchens at the Flathead County Fairgrounds, shaking hands, saying thank you, paying tribute.

And if you think Montana is beautiful, Dukes said, "Well, where Loic is, it's out of this world. And her memories of playing with Loic "will make me laugh for the rest of my life. Reporter Michael Jamison can be reached at or at mjamison missoulian. In return, the author and filmmaker has dedicated his life to advocating for the bears. After the chase concluded, an unoccupied Missoula police car was struck by an oncoming train. No one was injured and no other vehicles were involved, according to a news release.

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