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Searchers find body of 1-year-old swept away by Florence floodwaters in Union County
The Union County Sheriff’s Office said Monday morning that emergency workers found the body of Kaiden Lee-Welch, a 1-year-old boy swept away in rushing water Sunday. The boy’s mother was driving east on N.C. 218 toward Wadesboro, in northern Union County, Sunday evening. Investigators said there were barricades on the road, which was flooded by nearby Richardson Creek. The woman drove around the barricades, according to a statement from the Union County Sheriff’s Office, and…
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