UPDATE: Skye Azhar was found on Wednesday, Feb. 15, in good condition, police said. According to his mother, the teen "was using the transit system and sleeping on trains” before he was located at the Queens Library's Flushing branch.
QUEENS — A mother is frantically trying to locate her 15-year-old son, who has been missing for more than a week.
Kitty Azhar, a Queens teacher and activist, says she last saw her son, Skye Azhar, when he went to bed at their home at 75-65 Utopia Parkway in Fresh Meadows on Monday, Jan 30.
When she went to go wake him up the next morning, he was gone, she said.
Initially, she thought that Skye, a 10th-grader at the Veritas Academy in Flushing, went to school early.
But it turned out that he never arrived at school, and he has not been seen since, she said.
Azhar, who filed a missing person’s report with the 107th Precinct and posted numerous messages on local Facebook pages, said that Skye left his cellphone in his room and deleted all the information on it.
“He wasn’t doing well at school recently,” the mother said, wondering whether that could have led Skye to run away.
Azhar also said that while the teen had never previously run away from home, he cut school several times in the past and rode the subway instead.
Police described Skye as standing 5-foot-5 and weighing about 110 pounds, with brown eyes and hair. He was last seen wearing beige Nike sneakers and he might be wearing a white hoodie and navy or black sweatpants.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or the 107th Precinct detective squad at 718-969-6844.
