Isaiah Perez found safe after double homicide in Rhode Island that led to arrest of Malcolm Crowell, 22, cops say

A 2-year-old boy kidnapped from a Rhode Island home where police found two bodies has been found wandering around a housing project in Providence.

The Providence Journal reports that the boy, Isaiah Perez, was found unattended at the Chad Brown housing project Sunday night. Johnston Deputy Police Chief Daniel Parrillo says the child appeared to be unharmed but was taken to Hasbro Children's Hospital to be evaluated.

The search for the toddler began after the bodies were discovered about 5:20 a.m. at a home in Johnston, a town of 30,000 residents less than 10 miles from Providence. Two men were arrested in the double homicide and Isaiah's abduction.

Johnston Police Chief Richard S. Tamburini say the boy's mother is one of the homicide victims.

Parrillo said investigators believe the two were killed between 4:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. and the boy was taken from the home. The names of the two dead were not immediately released.

By the afternoon, Malcolm Crowell, 22, was arrested in Fall River, Mass., and Daniel Rodriguez, 27 or 28, was arrested that evening in Providence, Parrillo said. Both suspects are from Providence, but Parillo would not say why police suspect the two or how they are related to each other or to the victims.

Investigators were working to determine the relationships among the boy, his abductor and the two homicide victims. Parrillo said it was unclear whether the boy's abductor was living in the home, was a guest or was uninvited.

"What he was doing there, we have no idea," Parrillo said earlier in the day. "We don't believe the child was harmed, and we're just hoping that he will be safely returned."

When the boy went missing, a nationwide Amber Alert was issued that identified the child and also named Crowell as a suspect.

Massachusetts State Police spokesman Dave Procopio initially said Crowell was captured in Fall River. But Procopio later backtracked and would only say he was told the man in custody wasn't involved in the child's disappearance. Parrillo said Sunday evening that he couldn't explain the confusion among Massachusetts State Police surrounding Crowell's status as a suspect.