PORTLAND — Gresham, Ore., police are asking for help finding a boy who ran away from his parents early Tuesday.
Maliki Isreal Skutley, 12, left a hotel in the 17700 block of Northeast Sacramento Street shortly after 1 a.m. and didn’t tell his parents, Gresham police said in a news release. Maliki is diagnosed with autistism and has “a number of social ailments,” police said.
Police said he told a man outside the hotel that he was going to an unspecified store.
He’s about 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 130 pounds and has curly brown hair and blue eyes. He was last known to be in a black shirt and blue pajama pants, according to police.
Police encourage anyone with information about the boy’s whereabouts to call 911.