RICHMOND HILL, GA (WTOC) -
It's a mothers worst fear, their child goes missing, but thanks to a WTOC viewer, one child is missing no more.
WTOC aired the photo of a missing Richmond Hill boy scout throughout the news at Daybreak Feb. 8. Carol Wadsworth tells WTOC she heard the report and not long after, she spotted the 12-year-old boy shivering along I 95.
"All I could think is that mom must be going out of her mind and I was like, I know that is him," said Wadsworth. The minute I saw him I said that is the boy they are looking for."
Police searched nearly 12 hours for Armando Vegacolon after police say he ran away from his home in the Sterling Creek neighborhood around 9:15 p.m. Tuesday.
"We sent out a child is missing alert last night, put out a flyer and we contacted you guys (WTOC News) this morning to get something on the news and I think that paid off, a viewer spotted him along I-95," said Richmond Hill Police Chief Billy Reynolds.
"My eyes saw that little boy sitting on the overpass just before you get off the interstate," said Wadsworth. "I asked my husband what he looked like because he had seen it on the channel 11 news that morning. I said what does he look like? He described him and I said I know that was him. I said he had on a boy scout uniform."
Vegacolon was found near I-95 exit 87, about a mile south of Richmond Hill.
"You could tell he was cold," said Wadsworth. "He didn't appear to be injured or hurt or crying. He was all huddled around himself and bending down and sitting on the interstate."
"He seemed to be okay physically, just cold and probably hungry," said Chief Reynolds.
Thanks to help of a WTOC viewer, Vegacolon he is now back with his family.
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