A teenager who went missing from his family home in the US almost three years ago has been reunited with his family – after a remarkable attempt by police to find out who he was. Connerjack Oswalt’s surprised parents feared they would never see their autistic son again, who was 17 when he disappeared. But the missing young man, who lived at his home in California, was found trembling at a gas station about 750 miles away in Utah on Saturday, April 9th. The mystery still surrounds him where he was for 31 months, but the family was left in “floods of tears” after meeting him again. The 19-year-old had initially disappeared from his family home in Clearlake before lunch one day in September 2019, when his mother remembered making quesadillas – only to find out that her son had disappeared. Now Connerjack’s family, who have many mental health problems, have praised the police who went “up and down” to help him. Sheriff’s deputies found the teenager trembling as he tried to sleep in a convenience store in Summit County, which is known for its ski areas, Sheriff Justin Martinez explained. Susan Flint’s mom and stepfather Gerald Flint were overwhelmed by the news (Image: FOX13NOW) Konerjak found himself trembling outside a grocery store (Image: Summit County Sheriff’s Office) He said Connerjack appeared to have been living on the streets there for about two weeks. The young man’s family has been looking for him for years, handing out leaflets, scanning social media and desperately chasing fruitless opportunities. They even returned to his hometown of Idaho Falls, hoping he would eventually return. The stepfather Gerald Flint explained: “Any hints of something very similar to him, we would watch. Police went “up and down,” the family said (Image: LOCAL12 / Summit County Sheriff’s Office). The boy’s mother identified him through a stamp (Image: LOCAL12 / Summit County Sheriff’s Office). : Missing and Exploited Database for children) “It was a real nightmare.” His mother, Suzanne Flint, added: “I never stopped looking for him. “There was not a day that I did not look for him, in any form or way.” The exact circumstances of his disappearance and where he has been for the past two years are under investigation, police said. Police say that when lawmakers found Mrs Flint’s son, they asked if she would like him to come in their car and warm up. Connerjack is believed to have been on the streets of Summit, Utah, for about two weeks (Image: Missing and Exploited Children Database) He hopes to return with his family (Image: Missing and Exploited Children Database) He agreed and finally let the officers take a fingerprint. This led to a pending warrant from February in Nevada. But Sheriff Martinez explained: “The MPs just felt that there was something there, something more than a criminal warrant. “There was a humanitarian effort that needed to be further investigated.” Police began moving through documents, searching for reports of missing and threatened children. William and Kate lead the royalty in the Easter Sunday service as the queen stays at home In about 16 pages, they found the 2019 missing person report from Clearlake, California. Although it had a slightly different spelling of the name from the Nevada warrant, the photos matched and invited the Connerjack family. When the Flints first received the call, they were worried that their son had been found dead. But after his wife confirmed the identification through a birthmark, Gerald Flint quit his job, jumped in his car and drove to Utah for four hours. “Everyone in the room cried,” he said. “They went up and down, they put in working hours.
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“They could have rejected it, but they did not, and that made a difference in the world.” Social workers who specialize in autism took care of him after he was reunited with his family, said Lt. Andrew Wright, Summit County Sheriff. But the family hopes to bring him back home soon. Sheriff Martinez said: “We did not treat him as a criminal. We were treated as someone who has something deeper that we had to look for. “It is this intuition that really reunited this family.” Contact our news team by emailing us at [email protected] For more stories like this, check out our news page. MORE: “Mom watches her fugitive teen son get lost for a year on TV taking his dog from the animal shelter”
