Police Continue Search For Autistic Student Missing In Lower Manhattan
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - A 21-year-old student with autism is missing in Lower Manhattan.
According to the NYPD, Junior Parker was last seen leaving Stuyvesant High School on Chambers Street at 8:48 a.m.
He headed south on the West Side Highway, according to the NYPD.
Parker lives in the Bronx. He was last seen wearing a t-shirt with white letters, a blue denim jacket and blue jeans. Parker usually travels on the school bus and "is not travel trained," the NYPD said in a tweet.
We need your help to locate JUNIOR PARKER (DOB 04/02/98). He is autistic! He is wearing blue jeans jacket and blue jeans pants. Student travels on a yellow school bus and is not travel trained. He is from STUYVESANT HS pic.twitter.com/4mqA0c4dae
— NYPD School Safety (@NYPDSchools) May 24, 2019
Anyone with any information is asked to call NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or 1-888-57-PISTA (74782) for Spanish. You can also submit a tip via the Crime Stoppers website, by Tweeting @NYPDTips or by texting a tip to 274637 (CRIMES) and then entering TIP577.