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Attorney: Avonte Oquendo Tried To Run Off A Day Before He Escaped
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — An attorney for the family of Avonte Oquendo said Tuesday that the autistic teen had tried to run out of school the very day before he disappeared.
Attorney David Perecman told 1010 WINS Avonte, 14, had gone through the same “runaway” routine on Oct. 3 of last year as he did the following day, when he ran out of the Riverview School in Long Island City, Queens and was never seen again.
Perecman told DNAInfo that Avonte was with a group walking from the fifth floor down to the second when he ran off on Oct. 3. It was not clear whether Avonte was stopped by a teacher or staffer.
The incident was not in Department of Education Special Commissioner of Investigation’s report about the incident, but Perecman learned about it through NYPD documents he obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request, DNAInfo reported.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/04/08/attorney-avonte-oquendo-tried-to-run-off-a-day-before-he-escaped/