DETROIT (WWJ) - A 2-year-old child who went missing in southwest Detroit has been found safe after an hours-long search.

Aries Washington was located around 10 a.m. Friday sleeping in a neighbor's yard in the area of Yale and Melville, off I-75 near Dearborn Avenue. Although he appeared to be unharmed, the toddler was taken to a hospital for evaluation.

2 yr old boy safe after 5 hr search in Southwest Detroit that ends in a vacant commercial yard just 2 lots from where he went missing. Dad says they sheltered from rain under an awning behind an abandoned house where he fell asleep, then woke and found his son gone. More @WWJ950. pic.twitter.com/qSJjazRsj4 — Mike Campbell (@reportermikec) May 10, 2019

When Washington was reported missing, his father told police they were walking to a nearby restaurant around midnight Thursday when it started raining, so they sought shelter underneath an awning behind an abandoned home. Both of them fell asleep and when the father woke up around 5:30 a.m., the boy was nowhere to be found.

Officers quickly responded to the scene and scoured the neighborhood with tracking dogs. Hours later, Washington was found sleeping in a vacant commercial yard just two lots away from where he went missing.

"Officers, while checking a vacant lot near the original location, found the child. He had wandered away from his father, apparently, and kind of burrowed himself into a pile of leaves and brush," said Detroit Police Commander Darin Szilagy. "The child had a good coat on and I think with that, he's going to be OK."

The father is being questioned by police.