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CA Teen Found In Utah 3 Years After Disappearing: Report
A 19-year-old was found sleeping in a Utah gas station parking lot three years after he went missing in California.
CALIFORNIA — A 19-year-old man with autism has been found in Utah three years after he went missing in California, according to media reports.
Connerjack Oswalt, was 17 when he walked away from his home in Clearlake in Northern California, Fox KTVU reported.
He was reunited with his family after he was found shivering and sleeping in a Utah gas station parking lot on April 9, the station reported.
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He had been spotted pushing a shopping card around Summit County, Utah throughout April but he continuously refused services offered by deputies.
"I never stopped looking for him," Oswalt’s mother Suzanne Flint told the Associated Press. "There wasn’t a day I wasn’t searching for him, in some form or fashion."
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