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An Amber Alert has been issued for an Everett, Massachusetts woman and her baby girl, hours after police responded to a report of a domestic dispute.

[Suellen] Souza and Elton Fonseca, 25, were arguing in a gray BMW outside 34 Marie Ave., said Lieutenant John Cristiano of the Everett Police Department.

Neighbors heard Souza screaming for help and called police at 3:45 a.m., Cristiano said. But when officers arrived, the car, driven by Fonseca, was gone.

State police received a 911 call an hour later from a woman they believed was Souza, Cristiano said. They tried to pull the car over on Newton Street in Everett, but the car sped off.

Everett police have responded to domestic situations involving Souza and Fonseca in the past, Cristiano said. Souza had received a restraining order against Fonseca which expired on June 2.

Cody Porter, a fifth grader in Everett, Washington, suffered a tragic accident while playing with his friends in a backyard sandbox. They were burying Porter in the sand when they realized he was not breathing so they dug him out and ran for help.

Cody’s half-brother, 30-year-old Joshua Quantrille, said the boy was playing with Quantrille’s three sons and other children on Saturday in the back yard of a home belonging to a family friend, according to an Associated Press report.

Quantrille said his children told him Cody came up with the idea that they should bury him, head first, in the sand.

Quantrille said the children came up with the idea from a cartoon they watch on television, the Associated Press reported.

Quantrille also said Cody was buried about from his head to his chest. At some point, he began thrashing around, but the children apparently thought he was playing. They then dug him out and called for help.