16-Year-Old Has Gone Missing From Kips Bay, Manhattan, Prompting Police Search

16-Year-Old Has Gone Missing From Kips Bay, Manhattan, Prompting Police Search
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Epoch Newsroom
1/19/2016
Updated:
1/19/2016

Police are searching for a missing teenager in Manhattan after his family reported him missing.

Kyle Hoffmaier, 16, was last seen on January 15 in his family’s apartment on 24th Street in the Kips Bay neighborhood on the East Side. 

His family says he was there until about 11:30 p.m.

This is the first time Hoffmaier has run away. His family says he has borderline autism spectrum disorder, reported CBS.

Hoffmaier is described as a white male standing 5'4", weighing about 145 pounds, and with brown eyes.

He was wearing a grey polo shirt, khaki pants, a black leather jacket, and blue sneakers when he went missing.

Anyone with information is asked to call NYPD Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS or text tips to 274637 and enter TIP577.