A missing nonverbal teen from California was found after a rescuer heard him clinking rocks together in the wilderness of Crescenta Valley Park.
The 16-year-old, who is developmentally disabled, was missing for about seven hours.
The teen and several family members were spending the day at Crescenta Valley Park in Glendale, Calif., when he went missing.
The Montrose Search and Rescue Team, a branch of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, was called shortly before noon on April 3 to assist in the search.
According to CNN, John Gilbert, coordinator for the Montrose Search and Rescue Department, said the teen “was last seen walking straight up a hillside in what the family called an ‘uncharacteristic‘ move.”
After several hours of searching for the unnamed teen, a member of the Montrose search party “heard what sounded like the clinking of rocks together,” police reported on Facebook.
The rescuer recalled that, while the mother of the missing teen was briefing the search party, she mentioned her son had “an interest in playing with rocks,” police wrote.
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