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This article was published 28/07/2011 (5411 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
ROLLING RIVER FIRST NATION — An intense search for a missing man came to a successful end on Wednesday when he was found alive less than a kilometre from his home.
Family members had feared for Earl Huntinghawk’s safety because blood had reportedly been discovered at the missing man’s home on the reserve.
That fear turned to relief yesterday afternoon when Huntinghawk was found.
"Thank God," said Huntinghawk’s sister, Linda, her head falling into her hands on hearing the news. "My heart’s relieved."
RCMP issued a public appeal Wednesday morning to ask for help finding 49-year-old Huntinghawk.
Police said he was last spoken to on Tuesday morning when someone reached him by phone at his home around 9:30 a.m.
Linda Huntinghawk said she’d found bloody footprints outside her brother’s house and police were called when a friend discovered a "bunch of blood" inside the home.
Reserve residents started to search the grassland and marshland near the house Tuesday evening and were joined by the RCMP Search and Rescue Team, the Manitoba Office of the Fire Commissioner and Search and Rescue Manitoba volunteers.
By Wednesday morning, about 50 people searched by foot, horseback and ATV as Zodiac boats were used to check small lakes and sloughs.
Meanwhile, RCMP forensic identification officers were at Huntinghawk’s house which was surrounded with police tape.
Around 1 p.m. on Wednesday, RCMP search and rescue members found Huntinghawk about 800 metres southwest of his home, lying in reeds beside a small lake.
He was transported to a gravel road by a four-wheel ATV where he was loaded by stretcher into an ambulance to be taken to hospital. As of late Wednesday afternoon, his specific condition wasn’t known but police note he was conscious when found. There’s no word yet as to how he came to be lying outside.
Rolling River is about 50 kilometres north of Brandon.