Manitoba RCMP: Search for missing boy continues [Video]

The search for a missing six-year-old boy in Shamattawa is continuing Friday as RCMP hope recent tips can help lead to a happy conclusion.

Johnson Redhead has been missing since Wednesday morning. Investigators said he went to school for the breakfast program until 9 a.m., but then he didn’t arrive for his first class.

RCMP search and rescue landed in Shamattawa Thursday and there have been a mix of community members and officers helping with the search.

“We were out this morning checking some areas,” said Sgt. Paul Manaigre, with the RCMP media relations team.

“We’ve got more areas of interest that we want to get out to and we’re going to keep searching basically until we get some, hopefully, good results.”

He said RCMP did receive information Thursday night that Redhead may have been heard in an area, and searchers were able to find tracks.

“The idea now is …