A 19-year-old man with autism found cold and sleeping in a Utah gas station parking lot has been reunited with his family almost three years after disappearing from California.
Connerjack Oswalt was 17 when he left his family’s Clearlake, California home in September 2019. His parents had searched for him for years, handing out fliers, scanning social media and even moving back to Idaho Falls, Idaho, where he was born, in case that’s where he ended up.
Over the past few weeks, deputies in Summit County, Utah, received multiple reports about a homeless man pushing a shopping cart in the area, but each time they reached out to offer services, he refused, according to the Summit County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said after a couple weeks of trying, Oswalt finally accepted the help on April 9 when they found him shivering and sleeping in a convenience store parking lot. He eventually let deputies take his fingerprint while he was warming up in a patrol car.
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