ORCHARD, N.Y. (WKBW) — A Hamburg family is breathing easier Monday after their 16-year-old son was found safe following a six-day search that mobilized law enforcement, community volunteers and a specialized nonprofit organization.
For almost a week, law enforcement and community members conducted a search of wooded areas throughout Hamburg. Neighbors searched around Sowles Road and McKinley Parkway as the search for the teen named Jack intensified.
Monday morning, neighbors joined Western New York Missing and Unidentified Persons in a search party to help bring the teen home. The nonprofit organization’s mission is to reunite missing people with their families, and it offers a helping hand during the most difficult times.
“It was so great just to say, ‘OK, we got him. We found him. He’s alive. He’s OK,'” Sarah H., Buffalo team lead for WNY Missing & Unidentified Persons, said.
For the sixth straight day, loved ones of the missing Hamburg teen searched wooded areas in the Southtowns with help from law enforcement and WNY Missing and Unidentified Persons…