ken molestina. >> reporter: bruce, there were protests throughout the district, several of them. all led back here on to howard university's campus. the anger is felt among the participants. >> we the jury find george zimmerman not guilty. >> reporter: it was a verdict that set off the non straitionz we saw that continued on sunday. hundreds gathered at the park in northwest d.c. they protested with signs, messages and chants that have become all too familiar across the

ken molestina has the latest. >> dear michael, i'm sorry that you died. love you, michael. >> reporter: even the youngest members of this community, the kids michael kingsbury played with have become all too familiar with heartbreak and sorrow. >> if he died i'm sad. >> reporter: they left letters and toys at a makeshift memorial just yards away where the 7-year-old's body was found. >> they're grieving. they asked me if they could write a letter and i said okay. >> reporter: while the children try to deal with the loss and make sense of it all, everyone is asking the same question, how did this happen, especially after learning that family and police officers searched the area and the car where the boy's body was found in several times. >> we identified three other mpd officers over that about 30- hour period that have told us that they also looked inside of the vehicle and did not see the body. >> reporter: that fact is now leading to speculation in this neighborhood that the police searches weren't adequate and failed or that someone put the child's bo

. >> ken molestina has more. >> it was hard for me to see. somebody was holding her up. she fell.ery hard to see that. >> reporter: 7-year-old michael kingbury's mother was distraught. >> i never imagined this day, never seeing my child. i'm just going through all kinds of changes. i haven't seen my boy since saturday. i will never see my boy again. i thank everybody that came out of their home to help me find my child. >> reporter: the boy who had been living with autism was last seen late sunday morning. on monday his body was found inside a neighbor's car parked in a alley just around the corner where he lived on the 1700 block of west virginia avenue. >> we've been canvassing since the child went missing. one of our officers found the child. >> reporter: what is still not known how he got into the car and who had known. >> i'm devastated. i searched the area. >> reporter: gaston mcveigh was working hand in hand with search crews and can't come up with a reason for not finding the boy in the very spot they claimed they looked into several times. >> that's something that i have

our ken molestina is live in northeast d.c. and he was there when that grim discovery was made. >> reporter: it happened right near his home less than a block from where he went missing. tonight the members of this community were supposed to come out to have a gathering to pray for his safe return home. instead everyone is left shocked and grieving. >> it was hard for me to see. somebody was holding her up. she fell. it was very hard to see that. >> reporter: 7-year-old michael kingsbury's mother was inconsolable hearing the news. by nightfall she found enough strength to talk to us. >> you just watch your children. just watch them. i never imagined this day i'd never see my child again. i'm just going through all kind of changes. i haven't seen my boy since saturday and i will never see my boy again, but thank everybody that came out of their home to help assist my find any child. >> reporter: the boy -- my child. >> reporter: the boy who had been living with autism was last seen late saturday morning. on monday his body was f

noted, now is the time to start stocking up on water it you're in the affected area and tonight ken molestina continues our team coverage in oxon hill. >> reporter: i got to tell you not a lot of people are heeding the advice. maybe it's because they haven't heard this yet. you just heard debra alfarone talking about how dangerous this is for some of these neighborhoods. you've heard her talk about how massive of a water main we're talking about and the kind of sort of inconveniences that will inevitably happen. folks out here did not seem to really know what was going on. look over my shoulder. this is the safeway supermarket here. we're at river town center in oxon hill. we understand they just closed, so therefore, there's not a lot of action, but you can still see a pretty empty parking lot. so again folks aren't really coming out here. they're just learning about this quite frankly as we tell them. we spoke to many folks at the shopping center to give them the heads up of what is about to happen. listen to what they said. >> inconvenience is basically a lot of it's going to be hygiene. p

ken molestina. >> reporter: bruce, there were protests throughout the district, several of them. all led back here on to howard university's campus. the anger is felt among the participants. >> we the jury find george zimmerman not guilty. >> reporter: it was a verdict that set off the non straitionz we saw that continued on sunday. hundreds gathered at the park in northwest d.c. they protested with signs, messages and chants that have become all too familiar across the country. >> we're out here to support trayvon martin's family. >> reporter: the passion fat crowds took to the streets again marching towards howard university. supporters gathered one last time to get their message out. >> you've got to understand, we've got speak up now! >> reporter: although zimmerman stands a free man in the eyes of the law, these demonstrators and their court of public opinion maintain a different judgment. throughout the trial many tried to stick to the fact of the case regardless of the racial tension but others who showed up to protest are convinced the color lines are impossible to ignore