A Long Island teen missing for more than two weeks may have traveled to New York City to connect with a person he met online through the gaming app Roblox, according to his family, who’s asking for the public’s help to bring the boy home.
Thomas Medlin, 15, left the Stony Brook School campus on Jan. 9 around 3:30 p.m., according to a statement from Suffolk County police. From there, he ran to the Stony Brook Long Island Rail Road Station, where he caught a train into the city.
Some two hours later, Medlin was caught on surveillance cameras at Grand Central Station around 5:30 p.m. His family has not heard from him since.