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# Cops Rescue Autistic Teen From Water In Coney Island
- URL: https://bklyner.com/cops-rescue-autistic-teen-water-coney-island-bensonhurst/
- Published: 2016-04-25T17:00:27.000Z
- Updated: 2016-04-25T02:14:54.000Z
- Author: Alex Ellefson
- Tags: Bensonhurst, Police & Fire, Western Brooklyn, autism, autistic boy, Coney Island, missing, nypd, police, ps 721, #wp

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Cops dove into the water in Coney Island Saturday to rescue an autistic teenager who ran out of a Gravesend high school, [the Daily News reports](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/nypd-cops-rescue-autistic-boy-water-coney-island-article-1.2612544?ref=bklyner.com).

The 14-year-old had ducked out a back door at P.S. 721 around 2pm, police told the Daily News. About two-and-half hours later a woman called police to report a naked teen running in the water near West 12th Street.

When police arrived, the teenager was running in and out of the water. He eventually walked wast-deep into the surf. After officers failed to convince the boy, who is non-verbal, to return to shore, the cops removed their gun belts, uniform shorts and shoes, and jumped into the ocean to rescue him, according to the Daily News.

The teen was given a T-shirt and wrapped in a beach towel once he was brought to the beach. He was taken to Coney Island Hospital for evaluation, the Daily News reports.