Case No. DHF-078 | Subject: Koah Sharpe, 11 months old, of Lexington County, South Carolina, went missing on Monday 9 November 2026 after being left in his father's care; he was found alive on Tuesday 10 November 2026 in a wire dog crate buried in woods near Batesburg-Leesville, and taken to hospital | Date: Monday 9 November 2026 (went missing; father arrested that night); Tuesday 10 November 2026 (found alive) | Location: Lexington County, South Carolina, USA — Batesburg-Leesville area | Status: FOUND ALIVE
Posted: 11 November 2026
Status stamp: FOUND ALIVE
Why this file is stamped FOUND ALIVE: The stamp records only the position as it stands on 11 November 2026. Koah Sharpe, 11 months old, was found alive on Tuesday 10 November 2026, a day after he went missing in Lexington County, South Carolina, and was taken to hospital. The sheriff said he was clinging to life and hoped he would make a full recovery; his condition beyond that has not been stated by the authorities. The stamp is about the baby, not about anyone else: his father, Michael Comer, 25, has been arrested and charged only with burglary and resisting arrest, and no charge has been filed against anyone in connection with Koah's disappearance. Comer is charged, not convicted, and is presumed innocent. If the authorities file further charges, or make any further official statement, this file will be updated, dated, and re-stamped if the facts require it — never quietly rewritten.
Image note for readers: All images in this file are original illustrations created for Dark History Files. They are atmospheric artwork, not photographs and not real evidence. No image in this file depicts Koah Sharpe, Michael Comer, any member of any family, any investigator, any official, or any real person, and no image depicts any act of violence, any injury, or any crime scene. No photograph of Koah has been used in this file, although the sheriff's office has released photographs of him in its own reporting.
Caption: Case card for DHF-078 — Koah Sharpe, Lexington County, South Carolina. Status: FOUND ALIVE.
THE FILE CARD
| Case File No. | DHF-078 |
| Subject | Koah Sharpe, 11 months old, of Lexington County, South Carolina, went missing on Monday 9 November 2026 after being left in his father's care at his paternal grandmother's home. He was found alive on Tuesday 10 November 2026 in a wire dog crate, wrapped in a towel, buried in a shallow hole in woods near Batesburg-Leesville, and was taken to hospital. |
| Date | Monday 9 November 2026 (went missing; reported missing that afternoon; his father arrested that night); Tuesday 10 November 2026 (found alive). |
| Location | Lexington County, South Carolina, USA — Batesburg-Leesville area; the baby was found in woods about 50 yards from the home of his father's father. |
| Status | FOUND ALIVE |
| Investigating authorities | Lexington County Sheriff's Department, led by Sheriff Jay Koon, with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives taking part in the search. |
| One-line summary | An 11-month-old baby went missing on a Monday after being left with his father; the father was arrested that night without the child; the next day, searchers heard a baby crying from beneath freshly disturbed earth in the woods, and dug him out alive. |
THE CASE
A Monday morning in Lexington County
On Monday 9 November 2026, Koah Sharpe, 11 months old, was in the care of his paternal grandmother at her home in Lexington County, South Carolina. His father, Michael Comer, 25, came over that morning. The grandmother then went to run an errand, leaving Koah with Comer while another caregiver was on the way. That is the last part of the morning that the public record describes in settled terms, and it is worth stating it plainly, because everything after it is a gap: when the other caregiver arrived, Comer was gone, and Koah was gone with him.
Relatives filed a missing-person report that Monday afternoon. Deputies were called around lunchtime. What the sheriff's office did next is also on the record. Deputies went to a home where Comer's father lives. They found the doors open and the baby's belongings inside — and no sign of the father or the son. Investigators obtained video showing Comer at several locations across the county that day, without the baby. The sheriff later described Comer's movements in plain language: he was "bumming rides, calling rides, just getting rides from place to place."
There is one more fact about that Monday that belongs at the start, because it explains something readers will otherwise ask about at once. No Amber Alert was issued for Koah. The reason, given by the sheriff himself, was practical rather than procedural in the way people usually assume: Comer did not have access to a car, and investigators had no vehicle description and no licence plate to put out. "To be able to issue an Amber Alert, you have to have a known description of a car and a license plate to put that out," Sheriff Jay Koon said. The alert system, in other words, had nothing to broadcast. That is a fact about the system, not a judgement on it, and this file records it as one — the question of whether the system should work differently when a baby goes missing on foot is left for the end of this file, where it belongs, and not answered here.
The search, and the arrest
The search that followed was large and immediate. By Tuesday, nearly 100 law enforcement officers and other public safety personnel were involved, including local agencies, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. That number matters, because it is the measure of how seriously the disappearance was taken from the first hours — and because it is also the measure of how little the search had to go on. There was no vehicle to trace, no phone to track that the reporting mentions, and no sighting of the baby after the morning. The sheriff said it plainly as the day went on: "Certainly we got worried, hoping and praying that he dropped the baby with another person. As the day went on and nobody came forward, it was certainly more and more concerning."
On Monday night, deputies found Comer in an outbuilding at a property in Batesburg, in the Batesburg-Leesville area, and arrested him. He was booked on charges of burglary and resisting arrest. Koah was not with him. The sheriff's account of the arrest is short, and this file keeps it short: "Of course, he didn't have much to say about the whereabouts of the baby at that time."
That sentence needs to be read carefully, because it is the whole of what the authorities have said, on the record, about Comer's part in the disappearance — and because it is easy, in a case like this, to read more into it than it says. Comer has been charged with burglary and resisting arrest. Those charges relate to the circumstances of his arrest on Monday night. No charge has been filed against him, or against anyone, in connection with Koah's disappearance. The sheriff has said investigators are working with the solicitor's office — the local prosecutor — to determine what additional charges, if any, Comer could face, and that the investigation is in its early stages. A motive has not been stated: the sheriff said a motive was not immediately known. This file does not supply one. Comer is charged, not convicted, and is presumed innocent, and that presumption covers everything in this file that has not been decided by a court — which, at the time of writing, is everything except the fact of the two charges themselves.
Tuesday: the woods
The search continued into Tuesday. The detail that broke the case open was small, and it is the kind of detail that only a search on foot finds: a search team noticed freshly disturbed dirt in pine straw, about 50 yards into the woods near the home of Comer's father. As investigators began searching the site and digging, they heard the baby crying.
"As you imagine, the race was on," the sheriff said. "Everybody's getting down there trying to get him out."
Koah was pulled from a wire dog crate, wrapped in a towel, buried in a shallow hole. The crate was about two feet by two feet, and the baby was buried beneath roughly a foot of dirt. The sheriff estimated that he had been underground for about 24 hours, and said the towel around the wire crate "probably created an air pocket" — his words, and his reasoning, offered at the news conference as the likeliest explanation for how a baby survived a day underground. "By the grace of God, [the crate] probably provided enough air for him to survive our estimation of the last 24 hours under that dirt," he told reporters.
The sheriff's announcement, made at a news conference on Tuesday, is the moment the whole case turns, and it is worth quoting in full, because it is the only first-hand account of the rescue that the public record holds: "Certainly God is good. Just a few moments ago, we found little Koah, 11 months old, buried alive, clinging to life, crying — the most joyful sound you ever heard of a crying baby."
The baby was, in the sheriff's words, "screaming at the top of his lungs" when he was pulled out — "which is a good thing in the baby world, I would guess." He was rushed to a hospital by emergency medical services. The sheriff said he was clinging to life and hoped he would make a full recovery, and added: "Hopefully at 11 months old, he will not remember much of this as he grows older, just to have a great inspiring story to tell."
What the charges are — and are not
It is worth pausing here, because the gap between what happened and what has been charged is the most important fact in this file, and the easiest to get wrong.
Michael Comer, 25, was arrested on Monday night, before his son was found, on charges of burglary and resisting arrest. He remained in custody on Tuesday afternoon. The sheriff has said investigators are working with prosecutors to determine additional charges related to the child's disappearance and discovery, and that the investigation is in its early stages. Nothing more than that has been announced. No charge of kidnapping, no charge of child abuse, no charge of attempted murder has been filed — and this file does not treat any of those as filed, or as certain to be filed. Some social-media accounts of the case have stated that Comer was charged with kidnapping. That claim is not supported by the sheriff's office, by CNN, by Reuters, by the New York Post, or by The State, all of which report the same two charges — burglary and resisting arrest — and the same statement that further charges are still being considered. This file follows those sources, and records the kidnapping claim only here, in the fact log, as dropped.
The same discipline applies to the rest of the record. The sheriff said there had been prior domestic violence incidents between Comer and Koah's mother. That statement is on the record, in the New York Post's report of the news conference, and it is recorded in this file's fact log. It is not in the narrative above, and it is not in the File Card, because it is a single-source report about a living person who is not charged in connection with this case, and because it explains nothing about what happened to Koah on Monday or Tuesday. Reports of Comer's earlier arrests and court history, also single-source, are left out for the same reason. A file that repeats a man's record to fill a gap in its own story is not a file that has understood the gap.
What the file can say, and does say, is this: a baby went missing on Monday, his father was arrested that night on two charges that have nothing to do with the baby on their face, and the baby was found alive on Tuesday. The connection between those three facts — what Comer did, where he went, and how Koah came to be in the woods — is exactly what the investigation is now trying to establish. Until it does, the honest position is to hold the three facts apart and say so.
What is known, and what is not
One day after a rescue, the confirmed record is short, and this file will not make it longer than it is. Koah Sharpe, 11 months old, was left in his father's care on a Monday morning in Lexington County, and by the time the next caregiver arrived, both of them were gone. His father was arrested that night without him, on charges of burglary and resisting arrest. No Amber Alert was issued, because there was no vehicle to describe. On Tuesday, after a search involving nearly 100 officers, searchers found freshly disturbed earth in the woods near the home of the father's father, heard a baby crying as they dug, and pulled Koah out of a wire crate, wrapped in a towel, alive. He was taken to hospital. The sheriff said he was clinging to life and hoped he would make a full recovery.
Nothing in that record says who put the crate in the woods, or when, or why. Nothing in it says what happened to Koah in the hours between Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon, beyond the sheriff's estimate that he had been underground for about 24 hours. Nothing in it says what charges, if any, will follow, or what the motive was — the sheriff has said a motive is not known. And nothing in it says, yet, how Koah is doing now, beyond the sheriff's hope. A file written one day after the rescue cannot do more than hold that position honestly, and say plainly what would change it: if the sheriff's office or the solicitor files further charges, if the hospital or the family gives an update on Koah's condition, or if the authorities make any further official statement, this file will be updated with the date, the source, and the new stamp if the facts require it — never quietly rewritten.
That is a thin ending for a file, and it is the honest one. The baby is alive, the investigation is at its beginning, and the man arrested is charged with two things and presumed innocent of everything else. Until there is more to record, the file stays open.
TIMELINE
- Monday 9 November 2026, morning: Koah Sharpe, 11 months old, is in the care of his paternal grandmother at her home in Lexington County, South Carolina. His father, Michael Comer, 25, comes over. The grandmother goes to run an errand, leaving Koah with Comer while another caregiver is on the way. — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full); Reuters, 11 November 2026 (read in full).
- Monday 9 November 2026, around lunchtime: Deputies are called after relatives report Koah missing. By the time the other caregiver arrives, Comer and the baby are gone. — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- Monday 9 November 2026, afternoon: Deputies go to a home where Comer's father lives. They find the doors open and the baby's belongings inside, but no sign of Comer or Koah. Relatives file a missing-person report. — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- Monday 9 November 2026: Investigators obtain video showing Comer at several locations across the county without the baby. The sheriff later says Comer was "bumming rides, calling rides, just getting rides from place to place." No Amber Alert is issued, because Comer has no access to a vehicle and investigators have no vehicle description or licence plate. — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full); The State, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- Monday 9 November 2026, night: Deputies find Comer in an outbuilding at a property in Batesburg, in the Batesburg-Leesville area, and arrest him on charges of burglary and resisting arrest. Koah is not with him, and Comer does not say where the baby is. — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); Reuters, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full); The State, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- Tuesday 10 November 2026: The search continues with nearly 100 law enforcement officers and other public safety personnel, including the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full); The State, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- Tuesday 10 November 2026, afternoon: A search team notices freshly disturbed dirt in pine straw about 50 yards into the woods near the home of Comer's father. As investigators dig, they hear the baby crying. Koah is pulled from a wire dog crate, wrapped in a towel, buried in a shallow hole, and taken to hospital by emergency medical services. — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); Reuters, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full); The State, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- Tuesday 10 November 2026, afternoon: Sheriff Jay Koon announces the rescue at a news conference: "Certainly God is good. Just a few moments ago, we found little Koah, 11 months old, buried alive, clinging to life, crying — the most joyful sound you ever heard of a crying baby." He says the baby was clinging to life and hopes he will make a full recovery. — Reuters, 11 November 2026 (read in full); CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- Tuesday 10 November 2026, afternoon: Comer remains in custody on the burglary and resisting arrest charges. The sheriff says investigators are working with the solicitor's office to determine additional charges, and that the investigation is in its early stages. A motive is not known. — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); Reuters, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full); The State, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
EVIDENCE & LEADS
- The morning (Monday 9 November 2026): Koah Sharpe, 11 months old, was in the care of his paternal grandmother. His father, Michael Comer, 25, came over. The grandmother went to run an errand, leaving Koah with Comer while another caregiver was on the way. When that caregiver arrived, Comer and the baby were gone. — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full); Reuters, 11 November 2026 (read in full).
- The missing-person report (Monday 9 November 2026, afternoon): Relatives filed a missing-person report; deputies were called around lunchtime. — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- The father's home (Monday 9 November 2026, afternoon): Deputies went to a home where Comer's father lives and found the doors open and the baby's belongings inside, but no sign of Comer or Koah. — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- The video sightings (Monday 9 November 2026): Investigators obtained video showing Comer at several locations across the county without the baby. The sheriff said Comer was "bumming rides, calling rides, just getting rides from place to place." — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- No Amber Alert (Monday 9 November 2026): No Amber Alert was issued, because Comer did not have access to a vehicle and investigators had no vehicle description or licence plate. Sheriff Koon: "To be able to issue an Amber Alert, you have to have a known description of a car and a license plate to put that out." — New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full); The State, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- The arrest (Monday 9 November 2026, night): Deputies found Comer in an outbuilding at a property in Batesburg, in the Batesburg-Leesville area, and arrested him on charges of burglary and resisting arrest. Koah was not with him. The sheriff: "Of course, he didn't have much to say about the whereabouts of the baby at that time." — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); Reuters, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full); The State, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- The search (Tuesday 10 November 2026): Nearly 100 law enforcement officers and other public safety personnel took part, including local agencies, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full); The State, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- The disturbed earth (Tuesday 10 November 2026, afternoon): A search team noticed freshly disturbed dirt in pine straw about 50 yards into the woods near the home of Comer's father. As investigators began digging, they heard the baby crying. — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); Reuters, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full); The State, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- The rescue (Tuesday 10 November 2026, afternoon): Koah was pulled from a wire dog crate, wrapped in a towel, buried in a shallow hole beneath roughly a foot of dirt. The crate was about two feet by two feet. He was "screaming at the top of his lungs," in the sheriff's words, and was taken to hospital by emergency medical services. — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full); The State, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- The sheriff's estimate (Tuesday 10 November 2026): Sheriff Koon estimated the baby had been underground for about 24 hours, and said the towel around the wire crate "probably created an air pocket." — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); Reuters, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- The sheriff's announcement (Tuesday 10 November 2026): "Certainly God is good. Just a few moments ago, we found little Koah, 11 months old, buried alive, clinging to life, crying — the most joyful sound you ever heard of a crying baby." The sheriff said Koah was clinging to life and hoped he would make a full recovery: "Hopefully at 11 months old, he will not remember much of this as he grows older, just to have a great inspiring story to tell." — Reuters, 11 November 2026 (read in full); CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- The charges (as of Tuesday 10 November 2026): Comer is charged with burglary and resisting arrest only. Investigators are working with the solicitor's office to determine additional charges related to the child's disappearance and discovery; the investigation is in its early stages. A motive is not known. Comer is charged, not convicted, and is presumed innocent. — CNN, 11 November 2026 (read in full); Reuters, 11 November 2026 (read in full); New York Post, 10 November 2026 (read in full); The State, 10 November 2026 (read in full).
- What is NOT evidence in this file: who put the crate in the woods, or when, or why (not established); what happened to Koah between Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon, beyond the sheriff's estimate of about 24 hours underground; what charges, if any, will follow, or what the motive was (not known); Koah's current condition beyond the sheriff's statement that he was clinging to life and the hope of a full recovery; any claim from social-media posts that Comer was charged with kidnapping (not supported by the sheriff or by any of the four sources read in full — see the fact log); and any account of Comer's earlier arrests or court history (single-source, and not evidence about this case — see the fact log).
Caption: Illustration of an empty pine clearing at dusk, with distant search lights — atmospheric artwork, not a photograph of the search area, and not evidence.
STILL UNKNOWN
- Who put the crate in the woods, and when? The crate was found about 50 yards into the woods near the home of Comer's father. No authority has said who placed it there, or when.
- What happened between Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon? The sheriff's estimate is that Koah was underground for about 24 hours. What happened in the hours before that has not been established by any authority.
- What charges will follow? Comer is charged with burglary and resisting arrest only. Investigators are working with the solicitor's office to determine additional charges related to the child's disappearance and discovery. Nothing further has been announced.
- What was the motive? The sheriff has said a motive was not immediately known.
- How is Koah doing now? The sheriff said he was clinging to life when found and hoped he would make a full recovery. No hospital or family update on his condition has been reported in the sources read for this file.
- Why was no Amber Alert issued? The sheriff's answer is on the record: there was no vehicle to describe and no licence plate to broadcast. Whether the alert system should have another way to reach the public in a case like this is an open question, not a finding.
What would change this file: if the sheriff's office or the solicitor files further charges; if the hospital or the family gives an update on Koah's condition; if the authorities say who placed the crate in the woods, or when, or why; or if any new evidence is presented, this file will be updated with the date, the source, and the new stamp if the facts require it — never quietly rewritten. Until then, the stamp stays FOUND ALIVE.
If you have information: Koah Sharpe was found alive on Tuesday 10 November 2026, and the investigation into his disappearance is still in its early stages. If you know anything about what happened to him on Monday 9 November, contact the Lexington County Sheriff's Department at 803-785-8230. Do not send money to anyone who claims to have information about the case — the sheriff's office is the only official channel, and anyone asking for payment is not speaking for the authorities.
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SOURCES
- CNN, 11 November 2026 — "Missing baby rescued, found buried alive a day after authorities say his father took him" (https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/11/us/south-carolina-boy-buried-alive-hnk read in full, 11 November 2026): Koah Sharpe, 11 months, found alive Tuesday buried in a dog crate in the woods after apparently about 24 hours underground; discovered buried beneath roughly a foot of dirt with a towel wrapped around the wire crate; "clinging to life, crying"; father Michael Comer, 25, arrested the night before on burglary and resisting arrest, additional charges being considered with prosecutors; Koah in the care of his paternal grandmother Monday, Comer came over, grandmother ran an errand leaving Koah with Comer while another caregiver was on the way, caregiver arrived to find both gone; deputies called around lunchtime Monday; doors open and baby's belongings at the home where Comer's father lives, no sign of either; video of Comer at several locations without the baby; sheriff's "hoping and praying that he dropped the baby with another person" quote; Comer found in an outbuilding in Batesburg; search of nearly 100 officers; disturbed dirt in pine straw about 50 yards into the woods near the home of Comer's father; crying heard while digging; "screaming at the top of his lungs"; towel "probably created an air pocket"; Koon's estimate of about 24 hours underground.
- Reuters, 11 November 2026 — "Baby boy found alive in US after believed buried for 24 hours, police say" (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/baby-boy-found-alive-us-after-believed-buried-24-hours-police-say-2026-11-11/ read in full, 11 November 2026): Koah Sharpe, 11 months, found alive Tuesday after believed buried for about 24 hours; found wrapped in a towel in a dog crate, shallowly buried in woods; Sheriff Jay Koon's news-conference quote in full ("Certainly God is good..."); Comer arrested Monday night on burglary and resisting arrest, department working with the solicitor's office on additional charges; Koah went missing Monday after being left in his father's care while his grandmother ran an errand; freshly disturbed dirt about 50 yards from Comer's father's house; infant at the hospital and will "hopefully" recover.
- New York Post, 10 November 2026 — "Missing 11-month-old miraculously survives being buried alive 24 hours after his dad disappeared with him" (https://nypost.com/2026/11/10/us-news/missing-11-month-old-miraculously-survives-being-buried-alive-24-hours-after-his-dad-disappeared-with-him/ read in full, 11 November 2026): Koah found in a dog crate wrapped in a towel in a shallow hole on Tuesday; crate about two feet by two feet; Comer's mother had been babysitting before briefly leaving Koah in his father's care while another caregiver was en route; "By the time the caregiver got there, Michael was gone and Koah was gone with him"; missing-person report filed Monday afternoon; no Amber Alert because Comer has no access to a car, with Koon's vehicle-description quote; more than 100 first responders from local, state and federal agencies; belongings found at Comer's residence with both doors open; Comer "bumming rides, calling rides, just getting rides from place to place"; Comer found in a shed in Batesburg and arrested for burglary and resisting arrest; "Of course, he didn't have much to say about the whereabouts of the baby at that time"; freshly disturbed dirt and pine straw about 50 yards into woodland; "screaming at the top of his lungs, which is a good thing in the baby world, I would guess"; towel "probably created an air pocket"; "clinging to life" in hospital Tuesday afternoon, Koon hopeful of a "full recovery"; "Hopefully at 11 months old, he will not remember much of this as he grows older, just to have a great inspiring story to tell"; additional charges to be determined; motive not immediately known.
- The State (Columbia, SC), 10 November 2026 — "Update: Missing Lexington County infant found buried alive in dog crate", by Javon L. Harris (https://zestapp.ai/share/4998307128535-news mirror of The State article, read in full, 11 November 2026): Koah taken by his father on Monday afternoon, according to investigators; Comer arrested late Monday night on a burglary charge, Koah not with him; infant located Tuesday; searchers heard the child crying as they dug, about 50 yards from the home of the father's own father; taken to hospital by emergency medical services; Koon said he was clinging to life and hoped he would make a full recovery; Comer arrested late Monday in an outbuilding at a home off Columbia Avenue in Batesburg-Leesville; booked on burglary and resisting arrest; did not provide information about the child's whereabouts; no Amber Alert because Comer had no access to a vehicle and investigators lacked a vehicle description and licence plate; nearly 100 officers including SLED, the FBI and the ATF; investigators working with prosecutors on additional charges; investigation in its early stages.
- Lexington County Sheriff's Department, official contact (https://lex-co.sc.gov/directories/building-directory/sheriffs-department and https://www.lexingtonscsheriff.com/headquarters/ read in search results, 11 November 2026): Sheriff's Department main line 803-785-8230, used in the information line in this file.
- Social scan, 11 November 2026: social.search (Instagram/Threads/Facebook, recency-ranked, since 8 November 2026) returned the Koah Sharpe rescue as the most prominent fresh story — a WIS-TV report of the sheriff's news conference (90K likes, 7K comments), a second report (870 likes, 130 comments), and a true-crime update (22 likes) — alongside the Kylie Arellano rescue (already published as DHF-042), the Katie Suarez arrest (already DHF-059), the MSC Seascape charge (already DHF-073), the Maria Spurger charge (already DHF-066), the Victoria Perez case (already DHF-072) and the Carrie Mullane body recovery (already DHF-035, an update to an existing file, not a new topic); news-vertical searches returned the Koah Sharpe rescue on CNN, Reuters, the New York Post and The State, all dated 10–11 November 2026. The trending call for this pick rests on that news record plus that social record, stated honestly here. No claim in this file rests on a social-media post alone. No search-volume numbers are stated anywhere in the draft, because no tool returned any.
- No competitor article text or image is reproduced in this file. Facts are stated in Dark History Files' own words, with official material attributed to its source. No source beyond those listed above was relied on for facts in the draft. No search-volume numbers are stated, because no tool returned any.
Caption: Illustration of an empty country road at dawn — atmospheric artwork, not a photograph of Batesburg-Leesville, and not evidence.
Reader question: No Amber Alert went out for Koah, because there was no car to describe and no licence plate to broadcast. Should the alert system have another way to reach the public when a baby goes missing on foot — or is the vehicle rule there for a reason, because an alert without a vehicle to look for would only add noise?
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