Stuyvesant High Schooler With Autism Goes Missing, Police Say

UPDATE: The student was found and is safe, the NYPD said about 2:45 p.m. Friday.

LOWER MANHATTAN, NY — A Stuyvesant High School student with autism went missing Friday morning, a New York Police Department spokesman said.

The 21-year-old student walked out of the school on Chambers Street in Lower Manhattan about 8:45 a.m., police said.

The student, Junior Parker of the Bronx, was seen leaving the school southbound on the West Side Highway, the NYPD said.

About 9:15 a.m., he may have been seen at a Target store at 255 Greenwich St. between Park Place and Murray Street, the spokesman said.

The student was last seen wearing a blue denim jacket, blue jeans and black-and-white sneakers, police said. He is described as having a limp when he walks.

Police sources told the New York Post the young man is described as slender and 5 feet 10 inches tall.

Police cars, helicopters and harbor units swarmed the area searching for the him Friday morning, the Post reported.

In 2013, a teenage boy with autism, Avonte Oquendo, went missing from Long Island City's Riverview School. His body was later found on the shoreline in College Point.

Anyone with information on where Parker may be is encouraged to contact the the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

All calls are strictly confidential.