2024 - A young autistic found frozen after more than 2 years of wandering

In Utah, on April 9, an autistic teenager was found freezing near a gas station. He had been missing for more than two years.

An unbelievable ending. On April 9 in the United States, the Summit County police were contacted after the discovery of a 19-year-old teenager, frozen near a gas station. Suffering from autistic disorders, Connerjack Oswalt had been missing for nearly three years. He vanished on September 28, 2019 in Clearlake, California, when he was just 16 years old. “It’s beyond anything we could imagine.said Andrew Wright of the Summit County Sheriff’s Office. This is a truly miraculous discovery.”

According to the sheriff’s office, county police had contacted Oswalt a few weeks earlier following several reports of a homeless person around Kimball Junction. On several occasions, the young man had refused help from the authorities and refused to give his name. But on April 9, a conscientious passerby called the police when he found the teenager asleep, visibly cold. After rescuing and rewarming him, authorities took his fingerprints, conducted their investigation and recognized his portrait in the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) database.

His family was losing hope

Contacted, Connerjack’s stepfather, Gerald Flint, who now lives in Idaho with the young man’s mother, Suzanne, rushed to Utah, where he was able to identify the young man. According to the sheriff’s office, the boy’s loved ones were beginning to lose hope of ever seeing him again. “Everyone was crying, Sheriff Martinez tells Fox13, and I’m talking about the police, the family… They found someone they hadn’t seen for three years. He was 16, now he’s 19.” It is unknown at this time how long the young Oswalt had been in Utah.

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