A 9-year-old ran from school Wednesday morning only to be discovered three hours later under a bridge five blocks away.
Bryan police said the Crockett Elementary School student left the campus just before 8 a.m. and was found safe and unharmed close to 11:30 a.m.
"Any parent who has a young child knows sometimes they're going to get away from you," said Bryan schools spokeswoman Sandy Farris.
Farris said the principal and another employee were escorting the child when he turned and ran out the front door. The pair gave chase but were unable to catch him.
"The way that campus is laid out, it's a short distance from the door to where you can turn and be out of sight almost immediately," she said.
The two employees spent a few minutes searching before alerting the rest of the staff and the police department, she said. An automated call went out to alert residents to the missing fourth-grader. A school official said the boy ran away as he was about to be disciplined.
"It's absolutely not something that happens very often at school," Farris said "It was just one of those things where he was determined he was going to leave and he hit the door at a dead run."
More than 20 police officers and almost the entire district central administration staff helped search for the boy around Villa Maria Road and Elm Avenue, where the school is located not far from Texas Avenue. He was found hiding under a culvert off Cavitt Street.
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