Amber Alert cancelled after 6-year-old boy taken from father's home found

OHIO COUNTY, W. Va. — UPDATE: The Amber Alert has been cancelled. Akexton Steele, 6, was found in Marshall County, West Virginia, police said. Further information was not immediately available.

ORIGINAL STORY: An Amber Alert has been issued in West Virginia after a 6-year-old boy was taken from his father's home, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Akexton Steele was taken from the home in Ohio County about 9 p.m. after family members of father’s estranged ex-wife used an axe to break in, officials said. There was then a confrontation with the father, Zachary Steele, who was threatened with a knife.

The boy was put in a maroon 2004 Chevy Silverado 2500 with West Virginia license plate 3EX990.