A 14-year-old boy was seen wiping away tears before he vanished after his brother dropped him off at his Long Island high school.
Liam Stark went missing on Friday after security cameras at William Floyd High School caught him beginning to walk inside at 7.10am but never making it in.
‘You can kind of watch him contemplating suddenly, “Am I going? Am I not?” Liam’s mother Christy Stark told News 12 Long Island.
Christy said her son has been going through personal trauma and surveillance footage showed him wiping away tears before he walked away from the school.
‘I think that in a very wounded way, this was his “I can make it,”‘ the worried mother added.
After failing to go inside the school, Liam went to a Dunkin’ Donuts about a three-minute walk away, police said.
He was last seen Friday evening on a road about 2 miles from his school, near the Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge in Shirley.
The high school freshman was reported missing that afternoon after he did not return home on his school bus.
Liam’s brother Aiden said the situation has been ‘devastating.’
‘I just want to give him the world,’ Liam’s mother said as she asked the public for help locating him.
‘I just keep sending out love to him and hoping that he can feel it, wherever he is, and that it can help and he can come home.’
Police have asked that anyone with information on Liam’s whereabouts contact 911 or the Suffolk County Police Department Seventh Squad at 631-852-8752.
Liam is 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighs 155 lbs, officials said.
He has blonde hair, and brown eyes, and was last seen wearing a black hoodie, dark blue sweatpants and black sneakers.
The William Floyd School District said it is working with authorities in the search for Liam.
‘The district is hopeful that Liam is safe and will make contact soon,’ the district said in a statement.