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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Thu Oct 31, 2013, 03:04 PM Oct 2013

Avonte Oquendo search goes on after boy in subway pic ID'd

Eyewitness News

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The NYPD has identified the child in a subway photo resembling Avonte Oquendo, and it is not the missing teen from Queens. Still, the search continues, about to enter its fifth week Friday.

The new picture jolted some needed energy into the effort to find the 14-year-old, who is autistic and non-verbal.

Roughly 500 tips have poured in to find the boy, who was last seen on October 4 running out of his school in Long Island City.

A 13-year-old boy on the F train snapped the picture on Tuesday and later posted it on his Facebook page.

Read more at http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9307752

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