Somerville Police find missing teen

(Somerville Police Department)

By Globe Staff

Somerville Police say they have found a 13-year-old boy with a slight learning disability who wandered away Tuesday from the Kennedy School.

Jack C. Kornfield-Shay, who was last seen at 2:30 p.m., was found shortly before noon today on a path alongside Storrow Drive near Boston University, said Police Captain Paul Upton.

"This is good news. He’s in good spirits. He's perfectly fine. Happy ending," said Upton.

Police said this morning they were concerned the teenager might be disoriented and confused.

They also said Kornfield-Shay was known to take long walks after school, particularly through the Cambridge area from Porter Square to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They said he was very shy and not likely to seek police assistance if he became lost.

Upton said the teenager had spent the night in an MIT building and apparently had brought food along for his adventure.

"He was just exercising some 13-year-old independence," he said.

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