14-Year-Old Boy Vanishes After Brother Dropped Him at School but He Never Went Inside

A worried mom is hoping her 14-year-old boy will beryllium recovered safe aft he walked distant from his schoolhouse successful Long Island. 

“I conscionable want to springiness him nan world,” Christy Stark told News 12 Long Island of her son, Liam Stark, who has been missing since Friday, Oct. 17. “I conscionable support sending retired emotion to him and hoping that he tin consciousness it, wherever he is, and that it tin thief and he tin travel home.”

On Friday morning, Liam’s older relative Aidan told nan outlet that he dropped Liam disconnected astatine school, but nan family said he ne'er went inside. 

The school’s cameras showed Liam opening to locomotion to nan building, News 12 reported.

“You tin benignant of watch him contemplating suddenly, ‘Am I going? Am I not?’ ” his mom told News 12. Liam could beryllium seen wiping distant tears earlier he walked away. Christy told nan outlet that her younger boy has been processing trauma.

“I think, successful a wounded way, this was his, ‘I tin make it,’ ” she told News 12. 

Liam was past seen leaving William Floyd High School successful Mastic Beach astatine astir 7:10 a.m. section time, nan Suffolk County Police Department said successful a news release. The teen past went to a Dunkin’ connected Mastic Road, which is astir a three-minute locomotion away. 

The schoolhouse territory did not instantly respond to PEOPLE’s petition for comment.

That afternoon, Liam was reported missing astatine 2:30 p.m., authorities said. His mom told News 12 that she knew thing was amiss erstwhile he didn’t get disconnected his schoolhouse bus. 

“It’s been conscionable devastating,” Aidan said, according to nan outlet. 

The 14-year-old, who hails from Moriches, is 5 feet, 5 inches gangly and weighs 155 lbs., constabulary said. He has blonde hairsbreadth and brownish eyes and was past seen wearing a achromatic hoodie, acheronian bluish sweatpants and achromatic sneakers.

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A detective from nan Suffolk County Police Seventh Squad confirmed to PEOPLE that Liam remains missing arsenic of Monday, Oct. 20. 

Anyone pinch accusation astir his whereabouts is urged to telephone 911 aliases nan Seventh Squad astatine 631-852-8752.