A 14-year-old boy with special needs is safe after wandering away from his home in the frigid cold.
His mom said he is safe thanks to the kindness of an empathetic stranger and an intuitive database created by a sergeant at the Wheeling Police Department who is parent of a boy with special needs.
Urijah Heard is non-verbal. His mother Trey Briggs said early Tuesday morning she woke up to find all four locks on the family’s apartment door undone, and her son was gone.
Heard had not wandered far, but temperatures were below zero, and she said he was just in a t-shirt and underwear.
