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MILITARY TANK. RIGHT NOW I WANT HIS BODY TO REST. THATS WHAT I WANT TO FINALLY SEE MY BOY. I HAVENT BEEN ABLE TO SEE HIM SINCE YESTERDAY MORNING, AND I JUST WANT TO LAY HIM TO REST. I WANT TO SEE MY BOY. AND ITS HARD WAITING, WAITING, WAITING TO SEE MY SON. THE MOTHER OF AN EIGHT YEAR OLD BOY. REMEMBERING HER SON. TONIGHT, DEPUTIES SAY LIONEL CERVANTES RAN FROM A CLASSROOM YESTERDAY AT BELLS CROSSING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. HIS BODY LATER FOUND IN A NEARBY POND. TODAY, THE CORONER RULING HIS DEATH AN ACCIDENTAL DROWNING. AND TONIGHT, A VIGIL FOR LIONEL. JUST ONE DAY AFTER THAT FRANTIC SEARCH ENDED IN TRAGEDY. LIONELS MOTHER SPOKE EXCLUSIVELY WITH WYFF NEWS FOUR. AHEAD OF THAT VIGIL. NATE STANLEY JOINS US LIVE IN SIMPSONVILLE TONIGHT WITH MORE NATE. THAT VIGIL ENDED HERE AROUND 8 P.M. TONIGHT. BUT FOR HOURS AFTER THE MAJORITY OF THE CROWD HAD LEFT, LIONELS MOTHER AND A FEW CLOSE FAMILY MEMBERS SAT BEHIND ME ALONE. THEY CRIED. THEY PRAYED TOGETHER. WE SPOKE WITH HIS MOTHER TODAY AS SHES REMEMBERING HIS LIFE. PEOPLE. LEO WAS A BEAUTIFUL CHILD. HE WAS. HE WAS FEARLESS. HE WOULD SAY HI TO EVERYONE. THERES TIMES WHEN HE WOULD SAY HI TO AN ADULT. THATS HOW DALIA CERVANTEZ IS REMEMBERING HER EIGHT YEAR OLD SON, LIONEL. HE DROWNED IN A POND AFTER GOING MISSING FROM SCHOOL ON THURSDAY. HE WOULD GIVE RANDOM HUGS OUT OF NOWHERE TO PEOPLE. HE WOULD BE LIKE, HEY, I LOVE YOU AND PEOPLE WOULD BE LIKE, OH MY GOD. ON FRIDAY, DALIA WAS JOINED BY DOZENS OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS OUTSIDE OF BELLS CROSSING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. FAMILY MEMBERS HELD EACH OTHER, PRAYING TOGETHER OR BY THEMSELVES. CHILDREN PLACING SPIDER-MAN TOYS ALONG THE MEMORIAL. OTHERS LEAVING CANDLES AND FLOWERS. YOU CANT BELIEVE IT BECAUSE THEYRE IN SCHOOL, RIGHT? HER SON WAS IN SCHOOL. SHE DROPPED OFF HER SON THINKING, YOU KNOW, SHE WAS GOING TO PICK HIM UP AT FIVE. YOU KNOW, THE TIME THAT HES OUT. A ROCK OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOL WAS ALSO PAINTED IN MEMORY OF LEO WITH A SPIDERMAN MASK IN THE WORDS FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS. A DAY LATER AND STILL PROCESSING THURSDAYS TRAGEDY. DALIA IS STILL ASKING QUESTIONS FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND CALLING FOR JUSTICE. I SAW THE VIDEO AND ITS COMPLETE NEGLIGENCE. ITS NOT FAIR THAT LITTLE HAD TO LOSE HIS LIFE. THIS WAY. THE WAY THEY FOUND HIM. YOU KNOW. YOU KNOW, I WANT JUSTICE FOR LEO, AND IM GOING TO GET AND IM GOING TO FIGHT FOR MY SON BECAUSE ITS NOT FAIR THAT NOW, THE GREENVILLE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT SENT US A STATEMENT LATE THIS AFTERNOON THAT READS IN PART, OUR INITIAL REVIEW INDICATES THAT DECISIONS BY SCHOOL PERSONNEL WERE MADE RAPIDLY AND REFLECTED THE URGENCY OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES, AND WERE IN LINE WITH THEIR TRAINING AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE STUDENT. REPORTING IN SIMPSONVILLE, NATE STANLEY, WYFF NEWS FOUR. THANK YOU NATE. TURNING TO THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE LITTLE BOYS DEATH. GREENVILLE COUNTY SCHOOLS SAYS ITS BEGINNING AN INTERNAL INVESTIGATION TONIGHT. THE SHERIFFS OFFICE SAYS IT DOES NOT EXPECT ANY CHARGES TO BE FILED. THIS AFTERNOON. THE CORONER RULED LIONELS DEATH AS AN ACCIDENTAL DROWNING. THEY SAY THEY BELIEVE HE WAS IN THE WATER FOR AN HOUR AND DID NOT FIND ANY SIGNS OF TRAUMA OR FOUL PLAY. WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN RIGHT NOW IS TO HAVE SOME DEBRIEFS WITH EVERYONE WHO MAY HAVE SEEN SOMETHING, AND TALK TO THEM. STUDENTS AND STAFF WERE BACK IN SCHOOL TODAY WITH COUNSELORS ON HAND. A GOFUNDME HAS BEEN CREATED TO HELP PAY FOR LIONELS FUNERAL. PEOPLE HAVE SHOWN SO MUCH SUPPORT THE DONATIONS HAVE EXCEEDED THEIR FUNDING GOAL. MANY LOCAL BUSINESSES LIKE PAPAS AND BEER ON HAYWOOD ROAD, ARE HELPING OUT. LIONELS MOTHER, DALIA, USED TO WORK THERE. THE EMPLOYEES SAYING THEY ARE STILL CLOSE FRIENDS. THEY TELL US THEY WILL DO WHATEVER THEY CAN TO HELP HER. DALIA, BEING A GOOD FRIEND OF OURS, YOU KNOW, ITS JUST THE EASIEST WAY FOR US TO CONTRIBUTE. EVEN THOUGH, YOU KNOW, VERY HARD ON HER PART. BUT, YOU KNOW, I FEEL THAT MAYBE BUSINESSES CAN HELP OUT FAMILIES IN TIMES. TOUGH TIMES NOWADAYS. THE GOFUNDME GOAL WAS $25,000. SO FAR.