Footage from the police body camera recorded the moving moment when a mother from California said that her autistic teenage son was found alive three years after his disappearance was announced. Connerjack Oswalt disappeared from Clearlake, California on September 28, 2019 at the age of 16 – but was found earlier this month outside a gas station near Park City, Utah, more than 700 miles from his old home. It is not clear what the teenager was playing for the three years he was missing – and the situation remains under investigation. Oswalt, who was diagnosed with autism in 2014, was spotted by Summit County Sheriff’s officers, who saw him shivering late at night in the cold. They had received reports from residents that the boy had been wandering in the area with a shopping cart for several weeks. The young man initially refused help, but changed his mind when police visited him again last Saturday. Oswalt found himself trembling outside a gas station earlier this month The police offered to let him warm up sitting in front of their patrol car The boy was arrested by police in Utah, 700 miles from where he went missing “You look like you are trembling,” police said as they approached. “Are you cold; Do you want to sit in his car and warm up for a minute? “We can not make you sit at the door here all night.”
The police offered the teenager a place in their car to warm up while asking questions about his identity. He also agreed to have his fingerprints scanned. Oswalt tells police he does not want to be taken anywhere but to sit in the car to warm up. For whatever reason, Conerjak “either refused or could not give them his name,” but Summit County Sheriff’s Office made sure he got the care he needed. One of the officers also launched a search of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children database. Utah police then searched the missing persons files and found a match Another of the original photos shared by anxious parents in 2019 Days later, the boy’s father traveled to Utah to verify his identity. The video with a camera taken by the police shows the man sitting in a police interview with the boy’s mother on the loudspeaker. He describes a “very characteristic mark on his neck”, which the police confirm that he found.
Police then show the man a photo of the original poster that was missing three years earlier and ask him to compare it to an image taken last week.
The mother, Susan, and the father, Gerald Flint, are very happy to have found their son. A camera of the police body recorded the moment when the boy’s father confirmed that it was him The father’s reaction is visceral and he is immediately moved when he realizes that he is the teenage boy they lost years earlier. At the other end of the line, Oswalt’s mother asks, “Is that him?” “A little older, but yes!” He replies. Wow! “My beloved is alive!” the crying mother can be heard crying before bursting into tears of joy, knowing that her son has finally been found. ‘Oh my God!’ Oswalt is now receiving care and is expected to be reunited with his mother soon. “My beloved is alive!” Oswalt’s mother, Suzanne, cried before bursting into tears The mother, Suzanne, told CBS: “We searched all over California. We are just grateful he is safe and alive and we have our son back. That’s the most important thing for us. “ Oswalt’s father, Gerald Flint, added: “I’m honestly still dumbfounded. “We have had a lot of false hopes for the last two and a half years.” Flint drove from Idaho Falls, where the family had moved since his disappearance, to Park City for personal identification. Commenting on the moment Oswalt was reunited with his family, Sheriff Justin Martinez said: “There was no dry eye in the room. They have reunited with this person they have not seen for three years when he was 16 years old. It’s 19 now. “ “As we approached this person, he was never aggressive towards law enforcement, but he was resistant to law enforcement,” Martinez told FOX 13 News.