A Silverthorne Police Department report about the death of a 1-year-old boy July 22 provided accounts from three officers who responded to the incident.

All three officers responded around 2:50 p.m. to a call about a missing child. Zeldris Milo Maes, 1, of Arvada, went missing from the Willow Grove Open Space about five minutes before the call and was found in the Blue River about two hours later.

The first officer in the report canvassed the bike path and river bank north of the open space until hearing over the radio that rescuers had found Zeldris Maes in the river about a mile downstream of the open space and brought him to the bank. The officer went to where EMS workers were administering lifesaving efforts, including CPR, to Zeldris Maes around 5 p.m. The first officer stated that the coroner called Zeldris Maes’ time of death at 5:08 p.m.

The second officer wrote they searched two nearby properties, including one where Zeldris Maes’ father had been hired to install windows. When the officer heard over their radio Zeldris Maes had been found, they returned to the open space and stayed with the parents. Zeldris Maes’ father asked for an ambulance for his wife, who was hyperventilating, the officer wrote.

The third officer searched a section of the bike path north of the open space before going to the bridge where Hamilton Creek Road passes over Blue River, north of the open space. Responders started wading in the river upstream, or south, toward the open space.

The third officer wrote they went back to the open space and started looking for cameras in the area that could have recorded what direction Zeldris Maes had gone. Shortly after starting that search, they heard the report that the child had been found.

The report stated the Summit County Sheriff’s Office, Dillon Keystone Police Department, Frisco Police Department, Summit Fire & EMS, and Summit County Rescue Group assisted with the search and recovery.

Zeldris Maes’ mother, Serenity Maes, previously told the Summit Daily that Zeldris Maes ran away from her when she turned away from him to chase another one of her children who had gone “running off to danger.” She wrote that “anything can happen in the blink of an eye.”

“There shouldn’t be any judgement or slander or hate passed on to anyone, to any parent,” Serenity Maes wrote. “Especially if you have not been in the same situation, where you have lost or almost lost a child to a simple accident.”

Zeldris Maes’ manner of death was an accident, and his cause of death was drowning, according to Summit County Coroner Amber Flenniken.