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He did not elaborate on Faye's death but said a deceased male was found in Faye's neighborhood of Churchill Heights. That investigation has just begun, he said.

Still a police presence on scene of Churchill heights, Faye’s neighborhood and where her body was found. They’re centered around a home on the right. @abc_columbia pic.twitter.com/4wXOxCMUm2

— Maria Szatkowski (@MariaSzatkowski) February 13, 2020

Police believe there is no danger to the community, Snellgrove said.

Lexington School District, where Faye was a student, issued a statement, saying, \"We are heart-broken with news of the death of Faye Swetlik, a first-grade student at Springdale Elementary, who went missing earlier this week. When the school community experiences a tragedy like the loss of a child, it deeply affects all of us.\"

The school's principal, Hope Vrana, said in a letter to students' parents that a counselor would be on hand \"in the coming days.\"

Faye was last seen around 3:45 p.m. Monday. She had gotten off the school bus and was playing in front of her home in Cayce, just outside of Columbia, according to the Cayce Department of Public Safety.

\"PHOTO:
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PHOTO: Missing 6-year-old Faye Swetnik is seen in this video released by the city of Cayce as she got off her school bus Feb. 10, 2020.
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Her disappearance sparked a massive, three-day search.

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PHOTO: A Cayce police officer approaches a vehicle at a road block near an entrance to the Churchill Heights neighborhood, Feb. 13, 2020, in Cayce, S.C., where six year-old Faye Marie Swetlik recently went missing.
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Investigators knocked on every door in her neighborhood, combed through hundreds of hours of video and interviewed witnesses, officials said Wednesday.

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Sean Rayford/AP
PHOTO: A law enforcement officer talks with a driver at a road block near an entrance to the Churchill Heights neighborhood, Feb.13, 2020, in Cayce, S.C.
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\"She’s not the type of kid that will walk away,\" her family said in a statement earlier this week. \"Faye pays attention to her surroundings.\"

\"We just want to find Faye and bring her home,\" the family said.

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