Polk Co. Sheriff Byron Lyons and District Attorney Shelly Sitton are providing significant updates regarding the search for 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham.

The body of missing 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham, the missing Livingston girl at center of an AMBER Alert, has been found in Trinity River on Tuesday Feb. 20, 2024

During Tuesday’s news conference, Polk County Sheriff Byron Lyons confirmed investigators found Audrii’s body at the Trinity River Boat Ramp off Hwy. 59 after lowering water levels. The AMBER Alert has officially been discontinued.

Audrii’s body will be transported to the Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office to determine what happened to her and cause of death.

A spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety said this case has now turned into a criminal investigation.