BREAKING: Avonte May Have Drowned After Running From Dog - He may have died facing his two greatest fears — dogs and water. Missing autistic teen Avonte Oquendo was seen running from a dog at a nearby park right after he slipped out of his Queens school, and he likely fell into the East River in his panic, law-enforcement sources told The Post Friday. The drowning scenario is the top theory for Avonte’s disappearance and was further substantiated when body parts and clothing believed to be Avonte’s were found 11 miles up-river from the park, on a beach in northern Queens. “He had a huge fear of dogs and was seen running from one” in Hunter’s Point South Park, a short walk from his school, the source told The Post of the mute, timid 14-year-old. “He may have run in a panic and fallen into the water,” of which he was also terrified, the source said. The final surveillance video of Avonte shows him leaving his school in Long IslandCity and walking toward the riverfront park. On Thursday night, a left arm and two legs — still inside their jeans and sneakers — along with pieces of a torso were discovered washed up off of College Point by a 19-year-old photography student. The waterlogged size-5¹/₂ Nike Air Jordan sneakers and size-16 black jeans and striped shirt, both from Old Navy, all recovered from the remains site, match what Avonte was wearing when he went missing on Oct. 4, law-enforcement sources and the Oquendo family lawyer say. The grisly evidence has been sent to the medical examiner, and DNA results will be complete by Wednesday, the family lawyer, David Perecman, said Saturday morning. CONTINUE READING HERE: nypost/2014/01/18/avonte-may-have-been-running-from-dog-drowned-police-theory/
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 03:15:22 +0000
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