Azriel Lopez

Azriel Lopez

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TEWKSBURY — The search for a missing child came to a tragic end on Friday, when an off-duty state trooper from Methuen found the body of Azriel Lopez, 4, in the Tewksbury stretch of the Merrimack River.

Massachusetts State Police Lt. Edward Johnson said he had been searching the river in his personal pontoon boat since April 19, when Lopez, slipped and fell into the water near Arcand Drive in Lowell while fishing with his mother and siblings.

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