A lacking Lengthy Island teen was final seen at Grand Central Terminal two weeks in the past — and police now imagine he deliberate to hyperlink up with somebody he met on a preferred on-line recreation, his apprehensive mom stated.
Thomas Medlin, 15, was reported lacking after leaving the Stony Brook Faculty campus round 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 9 and operating to the Stony Brook Lengthy Island Rail Street Station, the place he caught a practice to the Massive Apple, based on the Suffolk County Police Division.
The Saint James boy was captured on surveillance footage arriving at Grand Central about two hours later — and hasn’t returned dwelling or been heard from since.
“He has by no means left us,” his devastated mom, Eva Yan, sobbed to Information 12 Lengthy Island, as she revealed chilling new particulars into the seek for her lacking son.
She stated investigators imagine the teenager met somebody on-line by means of Roblox and organized to attach with them in New York Metropolis — one thing the heartbroken mother stated is totally out of character for her son.
Police just lately instructed the household that the boy’s cellphone was situated in Decrease Manhattan and he was just lately noticed on surveillance video in Brooklyn, Yan instructed the outlet.
Medlin’s final identified location was close to Cherry and Rutgers Streets within the Decrease East Aspect.
“I simply can’t imagine why he left within the first place,” his tearful father instructed the outlet, with Yan stressing that they “simply need him to be secure.”
Medlin’s distraught mother and father have teamed up with buddies to arrange search events throughout Lengthy Island and New York Metropolis because the teen vanished.
Police stated the roughly 130-pound, 5-foot-4 teen was final seen carrying a black jacket with crimson stripes, darkish sweatpants with white stripes and a black backpack and glasses.
Anybody with data is inspired to contact Suffolk County’s Fourth Squad at 631-854-8452.
