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As she flicks through family photos of Ean as a young boy with a bowl haircut; messing about with family at home; and of his time in the Army, she said Ean was "a bit of a cheeky chappie, always in a wee bit of bother".

Thursday to the Chappie/Shasta Off-Highway Vehicle Area, a Bureau of Land Management area that includes campgrounds downstream from Shasta Dam, where the two children were reported to have fallen down the hillside as the land collapsed, sending rocks and debris down the hill toward a nearby river.

“His classmate,” Brewer said, “was Gen. Chappie James” — the first Black man to become a four-star general in any U.S. military branch.

Director Neill Blomkamp, behind films such as "Chappie" and "District 9", said Mardenborough was involved in writing the script as well as was on set during the filming.

The teenage narrator, Chappie, is homeless.