Associated Press reports Former Marine finds missing Florida boy safe in woods Brooksville is about 50 miles north of Tampa on Florida’s Gulf Coast.

NBC-2 BROOKSVILLE, Fla.

(AP) — A former U.S. Marine is being hailed as a hero Friday for finding a 2-year-old boy who had been missing since wandering out of his north Florida home the day before. “I said a prayer about 10 minutes before I found him,” Roy Link told Hernando County Sheriff Al Nienhuis in a video the sheriff’s office posted on Facebook.