By Alicia Cruz
The Black Urban Times
Rosura Taveras and Ross Harrison Sr., reached out to the public for help in locating their missing 13-year-old son, Ross Harrison Jr., who disappeared after leaving his home for school Tuesday morning.
Following an intensive search by his family and police, the boy, who is autistic, was found unharmed. Police say Harrison Jr., was found riding a Brooklyn subway and is in good condition, MyFoxNY reported.
According to a CBS News report, the younger Harrison was apprehensive about going to school after he complained to his mother that he was being bullied at school. He told his mother that someone was going to hit him on the bus. As Taveras escorted her son down the stairs of their West 182nd Street apartment building, the boy took off running.
His father spent Thursday afternoon posting and handing out flyer's throughout the neighborhood hoping someone would recognize his son and return him home. Following an afternoon news story on the missing Washington Heights boy, a woman told CBS 2 News she saw the boy riding the number 2 train uptown but did not realize he was missing until she saw the news coverage.
Shaakira McFarlande stated that Harrison Jr., was on the train around 10:30 a.m. She told reporters that she saw the missing boy riding the subway, but didn’t realize who he was until watching CBS 2 News at Noon. McFarlande added that the missing boy exited the train at 174th Street.
Taveras believes her son got on the 4 train at 183rd Street and Jerome Avenue in the Bronx and simply got lost. Unfortunately, Ross was not wearing a GPS bracelet at the time of his disappearance.
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