“He has never left us,” the 15-year-old boy’s mother said through tears in an interview
NEED TO KNOW
- Thomas Medlin, 15, went missing after traveling into Manhattan from his Long Island, N.Y., school on Jan. 9
- The teen’s mother believes he was heading into the city to see someone he met on Roblox
- Thomas has been missing for two weeks, and remains missing as extreme weather is set to hit New York
A teenage boy has been missing for two weeks, since heading into Manhattan from his home in Long Island, N.Y. His mom believes he left to meet someone he met online through Roblox.
Fifteen-year-old Thomas Medlin of St. James, a hamlet in Suffolk County, went missing on Friday, Jan. 9, after traveling into Manhattan after school, according to a news release shared by the Suffolk County Police Department (SCPD) on Monday, Jan. 12.
Thomas left Stony Brook School that Friday at around 3:30 p.m. local time, and “ran” to the Stony Brook Long Island Rail Road station, where he seemingly caught a train into Manhattan, per the SCPD…