Boy with Down syndrome solves neighborhood crime

A young child with Down syndrome is being credited with solving a neighborhood crime, just by taking a few pictures. Tuesday night, the landlord of a residence near 300 South and 1200 East in downtown Salt Lake City stopped by and saw that his sprinklers had been kicked down and his valve box vandalized. With the help of his neighbors -- and one smart kid -- they assisted police in citing the culprit.

Skyler took this picture of the vandal as his mother confronted him over the broken sprinklers. Skyler Nelson, age 10, loves taking pictures. So Tuesday night when his mother approached two college students who were vandalizing a neighbor's lawn, he started snapping away. "I thought, ‘Wow, it's amazing that a 10-year-old could do it," but you have to understand Skyler isn't an ordinary 10-year-old," said landlord Ron Anderson. Skyler has Down syndrome. Read more:
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