Autistic man goes missing for 17 days, found in burnt-out building: Ontario police

An 18-year-old autistic antheral from Havelock, Ont., was recovered live by Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) aft having been missing for implicit 2 weeks.

OPP said they recovered Logan Tozer successful a burnt-out gathering successful Havelock astatine astir 8:45 a.m. connected Wednesday morning.

Police said accidental officers had searched the gathering earlier arsenic it is said to beryllium 1 of Tozer’s regular spots to visit.

Tozer spoke to Global News connected Wednesday morning, saying helium made his mode backmost to Havelock, arriving arsenic rainfall besides arrived successful the country connected Tuesday evening.

“When it was raining and it was nightfall already, erstwhile I got backmost to Havelock, I took structure successful the burnt-down building,” Tozer said.

After being recovered aft 17 days, constabulary accidental Logan was taken to an country infirmary arsenic a precautionary measure.

His mom, Jenn, was ecstatic erstwhile she heard the quality that her oldest kid had been recovered aft 2 weeks.

“Before I got the telephone telephone (from police), idiosyncratic had messaged maine and sent maine a screenshot from societal media saying he’s been found,” she explained, though it remained unclear whether it was authoritative for a fewer much minutes.

“About 3 minutes aft that, the telephone rang and it was the serviceman that was successful complaint of the case, and helium says, ‘We recovered him.’”

She said that a person gave her a thrust to the infirmary truthful she could beryllium reunited with Logan.

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“I was successful tears. I was hugging everybody, and anyone that came adjacent me,” she said. “I’m thrilled. I’m thrilled he’s harmless and home.”

Logan did not person a compartment telephone with him and was unsure however agelong helium was gone for, and unaware of the monolithic hunt effort that had sprung up for him.

An OPP spokesperson said that crushed hunt teams, K-9 Unit, Emergency Response Emergency Response Team and Aviation Services, including a chopper and distant piloted craft system, were progressive successful the search.

In addition, determination were besides regular hunt efforts from assemblage members arsenic good arsenic a Facebook radical that had ballooned to 11,000 members.

But Logan had walked much than 35 km from his area, to the Blue Mountain Quarry, hampering hunt efforts.

“It was similar an adventure, a caller world, but aboriginal on, I conscionable had the feeling that I needed to spell home,” helium explained. “And that’s erstwhile things benignant of felt scary.”