Search for family of Texas teen with special needs found alone

Police said they took DNA and fingerprints to correctly identify the teen, but it’s unclear when they’ll get those results.

MIDDLAND, Texas. The Midland Police Department is looking for the family of a teenager with special needs who was found wandering alone last month.

Police said the boy was found alone on January 29 in an alley near Midland College. According to police, he does not speak and is believed to be between 13 and 17 years old.

While the teenager’s identity has not been established, police said they believe his name is “Cordarius” because he wrote it several times at the request of investigators. Unfortunately, there are no results in any missing persons database that match his description or name.

“He’s a special needs child who’s left alone, roaming the streets, and we don’t know how long he’s been there,” Midland Police’s Jenny Alonzo said. “Because he doesn’t talk to us, he can’t communicate with us, he can’t tell us how he feels, where he’s from, where he came from, who he’s been living with lately. So we really have no idea where he’s from.”

Police said they took DNA and fingerprints to correctly identify the teen, but it’s unclear when they’ll get those results. The teenager is currently in state custody and will remain there if his family cannot be found.

Questions surrounding the missing teenager are leading social media users to create their own theories that he is a non-verbal autistic boy from Florida who went missing 14 years ago. The detectives have dismissed this theory, but as a precaution, they run a DNA test.

If the family is found, police said they could face criminal charges for endangering a child.

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