Runaway teen hides in makeshift toilet paper fort in the middle of Walmart for days unnoticed

A teen told Oklahoma constabulary helium slept successful a toilet insubstantial fort wrong a Walmart after moving distant from his grandparents' home.

Christopher Dunham, 16, was reported missing by the mates connected Sunday erstwhile helium vanished from their Hazel Road location successful Grove.

The enigma disappearance took a turn when the teen was seen attempting to sneak backmost into the household location connected Tuesday nighttime aft officers had served a hunt warrant astatine the property. 

Grove Police Chief Mark Morris believes the teen whitethorn person been watching the house, arsenic his effort to re-enter the location coincided with the past serviceman leaving the premises.  

After the household yet reunited, Dunham's gramps aboriginal brought the teen into the constabulary presumption wherever helium recounted his days-long disappearance. 

Dunham told constabulary that helium built a fort retired of toilet insubstantial wrong the Walmart store and slept successful a canine bed, KSNF reported. 

The constabulary main said Dunham's grandparents made searching for the teen hard arsenic they told constabulary they didn't privation his photograph released, citing 'extended household issues'. 

'They weren't precise cooperative,' Morris told the outlet. 

A Grove constabulary serviceman and a Department of Human Services kid idiosyncratic were the archetypal to get astatine the grandparents' location connected Tuesday day erstwhile they were denied entrance, prompting constabulary to get a hunt warrant.

Around 7:30pm aboriginal that night, constabulary arrived acceptable to service the hunt warrant.

However, adjacent with the recently obtained warrant, constabulary were 'met with hostility' and erstwhile again denied entranceway into the home, according to the constabulary chief.

After negotiating with Dunham's grandparents, authorities were permitted to hunt the home, a pickup motortruck parked extracurricular and the backyard.

Morris told reporters the lawsuit is 1 of the astir obscure he's ever been faced with. 

'This is 1 of the astir bizarre cases successful my instrumentality enforcement career,' Morris told KSFN16.   

Morris says electronics, cameras and compartment phones were besides seized successful the search.

A DHS authoritative volition conscionable with the teen connected Wednesday, Morris said, saying the teen displayed 'minor' injuries.

'He whitethorn person a insignificant lawsuit of frostbite connected his toes,' Morris told the outlet. 'It is chartless if this was related to this runaway oregon a erstwhile incident.'

The incidental comes implicit a twelvemonth aft a neighbour who lives adjacent the Dunhams 'got into an argument' with the boy's grandparents past summertime implicit his wellbeing.

They claimed Dunham was seen extracurricular mowing the tract during a 115 grade vigor index.

The worry-stricken neighbors aboriginal expressed their interest to the boy's grandparents earlier they 'became combative'.

Another unidentified neighbour came guardant conscionable arsenic constabulary were ending the hunt astir 10:15 pm, to assertion the grandparents had locked the teen retired of the location 1 nighttime erstwhile it was 'pouring rainfall extracurricular and cold.'

'He was extracurricular crying and begging to beryllium fto backmost inside,' the neighbour told police. 

'We heard his crying and her yelling astatine him to unopen up.'

The grandma yet fto the teen backmost wrong the house, the neighbors claimed, KFOR.com reported.

The neighbour said she confronted the grandma the pursuing day.

The grandma had claimed they 'didn't cognize however to grip him,' according to the neighbor.