Avonte Oquendo Dead: DNA Tests Confirm Body Parts Were Missing Teen

Avonte Oquendo Dead: DNA Tests Confirm Body Parts Were Missing Teen
In this Oct. 21, 2013 file photo, a missing poster asking for help in finding Avonte Oquendo is displayed at a subway station in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Oquendo, 14, who is autistic, was last seen on Oct. 4 walking out of his Queens school. (AP Photo/Barbara Woike)
Zachary Stieber
1/21/2014
Updated:
7/18/2015

Avonte Oquendo is dead; the body parts found in Queens late last week were from the missing autistic teen.

DNA tests came in on Tuesday confirming the remains were Oquendo, reported NBC.

The teen went missing in October after walking out of his school.

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