A community vigil will be held this evening at 7:00 at the Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial downtown, remembering the life of Trevyan Rowe.
The 14 year old with autism walked away from School #12 on South Avenue Thursday morning, possibly upset over a lost cellphone. Police are awaiting confirmation that a body found by divers in the Genesee River on Sunday is his, although from the description and the clothing they believe it’s Trevyan’s.
A police SCUBA team spotted the body with sonar near the Douglass-Anthony Bridge downtown.
Rochester School Superintendent Barbara Deane-Williams says a independent investigation will be conducted into 14-year-old Trevyan Rowe’s disappearance. The Rochester City School District confirms it didn’t notify his family that he was absent from school on the day he vanished.
District policy is to notify family by 10:00 a.m. that a child is not in school. That call wasn’t made, according to the city school district. Instead, the 14-year-old autistic boy’s mother, Carrie Houston, didn’t realize something was wrong until Trevyon failed to return home on his usual bus. Police were then called both by Trevyon’s mother and the school district, but they began their search 10 hours after he was last seen.