Search ends for body of infant swept away by flood that killed sister, mother, 4 others

FILE – Yardley Makefield Marine Rescue leaves the Yardley boat ramp heading down the Delaware River on July 17, 2023, in Yardley, Pa. The family of a 2-year-old girl swept away along with another child by a flash flood that engulfed their vehicle on a Pennsylvania road is expressing gratitude at the discovery of a body believed to be hers. The body was found early Friday, July 22, in the Delaware River near a Philadelphia wastewater treatment plant about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from where Matilda Sheils was carried away, authorities said Friday night. (Alejandro A. Alvarez/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, File)

WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa. (AP) — Authorities in Pennsylvania say the active search has ended for a 9-month-old boy swept away in a flash flood earlier this month. The flood also killed his 2-year-old sister and mother as well as four other people. Upper Makefield Township police said Wednesday they have “exhausted all means” of trying to find 9-month-old Conrad Sheils. Hundreds of people have been searching since what authorities called a “wall of water” swamped motorists July 15, including the South Carolina family heading to a barbecue. The father, grandmother and a 4-year-old boy survived but the two younger children and their mother were killed.