Overview

• Hilda Vasquez is jailed on counts of negligent homicide and second-degree cruelty to juveniles, with a Gwen’s Law hearing set for Sept. 15 and protective orders issued for her other children.
• An arrest affidavit says she left Bryan and his 11-year-old sister home alone the morning he disappeared, did not check on him before leaving, and had not secured a window despite prior elopements.
• The Orleans Parish Coroner determined Bryan died from blunt trauma consistent with an alligator attack and drowning, while the precise time of death remains undetermined.
• New Orleans police opened an internal review into an almost five-hour lag before officers responded to the missing-person call, seized family phones for analysis, and referred the case to the district attorney for charging review.
• Volunteers with the United Cajun Navy used thermal drone technology to find the boy’s body in a nearby lagoon on Aug. 26, and wildlife officials were asked to remove nuisance alligators from the area.