Mother learns her autistic teenage son was found alive after being missing for three years on camera

Police bodycamera footage captured the emotional moment a mother from California was told her autistic teenage son had been found alive three years after he was reported missing.

Connerjack Oswalt disappeared from Clearlake, California on September 28, 2019 at the age of 16 – but he was found earlier this month outside a gas stations store near Park City, Utah, more than 700 miles away from his old home.

It’s unclear what the teen had been up to 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.
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They had received reports from residents that the boy had been wandering the area with a shopping cart for several weeks.

The young man initially refused help, but he changed his mind when police revisited him last Saturday.

Oswalt was found shivering outside a store gas station earlier this month

Oswalt was found shivering outside a store gas station earlier this month

Police offered to let him warm up by sitting in the front of their patrol car

The boy was picked up by police in Utah 700 miles away from where he went missing

‘You look like you’re shivering,’ the officers said as they approached. ‘You cold? You want to come sit in his car and warm up for a minute? We can’t have you sitting in front of the door here all night.’

The officers offered the teen a seat in their patrol vehicle to warm up while they asked questions as to his identify. He also agreed to have his fingerprints scanned.

Oswalt tells the officers that he doesn’t want to be taken anywhere but to sit in the car to warm up.

For whatever reason, the Connerjack ‘either refused or was unable to give them his name’ but the Summit County police force made sure he got the care he needed.

One of the officers also set about searching the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children database.