Missing Man Named Logan Jacinto Found Dead in Kaufman County

Deputies in Kaufman County say they found the body of Logan Jacinto on Sunday. He was 40 years old. His car went off the road in the country on Tuesday night. Sister of Logan Jacinto Sydonia Jacinto said, "It was the call we didn't want to get—to hear that your brother is dead."

For the past five days, Logan Jacinto's family has put together volunteer search parties to look for any sign of him in the fields and woods near the part of Highway 175 in Kaufman County where he crashed his car on Tuesday night.

Through text, he told his wife that it was raining but that he would get home. But his family says that people saw him lose control of his car and hit a guardrail.

His wife said he was missing on January 3 just before 7 p.m. A few hours later, officers from the Kaufman County Sheriff's Office went back to the accident site. The rural area was searched, but no one was found.

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"He wasn't going to give up," Sydonia Jacinto said. "We said we'd be there all day and night. Yes, that's what we did." But this wasn't what they wanted to happen. Logan Jacinto was found dead in a creek not far from where the crash happened. His brothers were the ones who found his body.

"My brother, the one who jumped in, isn't getting it," Sydonia Jacinto said. "He said, "I jumped in there, sis, I pulled him out of the water. It hadn't hit him yet." I told him I loved him and kissed him.

The Kaufman County Sheriff's Office said that he had been found dead. His family says that an autopsy will be done to find out how he died for sure. In addition to the searches done by volunteers, several law enforcement agencies also looked for him in the area over the last few days: they were unsuccessful.

Sydonia Jacinto said, "I'm glad the police showed up and helped, but it wasn't enough." "We were going to keep going until we found him." It wasn't how we had hoped to find him, but we're now done with that part of the story. The family can now start to grieve and think of how much their brother, father, husband, and son loved to dance and make them laugh.

Someone called Sydonia Jacinto said, "He was a funny man." He would say random things to my brother and me, and we were talking about them. We're going to treasure the memories. "He may be dead, but we will never forget him."

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