An Amber Alert was sent out at 7 a.m. Monday as authorities continued searching for a missing 5-year-old boy from Lake County. Jace Saunders, age 5, is diagnosed with autism and is semi-verbal, according to a Tavares Police Department Facebook post.

Authorities issued an AMBER alert for Jace Saunders Monday morning after his grandmother, 50-year-old Kelly Dasilva, was believed to have kidnapped him after workers with the Department of Children and Families tried to place the child in their custody. Hours after the alert was issued, the grandmother turned herself in.