BERNE, N.Y. -- The Amber Alert for Kenneth White, the 5-year-old boy abducted from his Albany-area home Thursday afternoon, has been cancelled after the boy was found dead, state police announced.

The Amber Alert was canceled at 11:46 p.m. Thursday. A police K-9 unit found White's body near the trailer he was abducted from, WNYT in Albany reported.

Initial reports stated that two men wearing ski masks broke into the Thatcher Park Road home, pinned down the 19-year-old daughter of White's legal guardians and took the boy, but Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple told the Times Union in Albany this morning that the abduction story involving the two masked men appears to be false. Initial reports said two other children, ages 3 and 4, were also inside the home at the time, WNYT reported.

Apple told the Times Union that authorities have a "person of interest" in White's death. His death is being considered a homicide, CBS 6 in Albany reported.

The boy was living with an aunt, his legal guardian, Apple told the Times Union, adding that White's mother lives Amsterdam, about 35 miles northwest of Albany, and his father lives in western Massachusetts. Both parents have been accounted for, the Times Union reported.

The Amber Alert was activated at 1:55 p.m.

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