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A 14-year-old boy with autism is dead after he ran away from school and ran onto a Texas highway on Sept. 23

Now, the teen's grieving family is demanding answers

The El Paso Independent School District said that a third-party investigator is reviewing the incident

A 14-year-old boy with autism is dead after he ran away from his high school and ran onto a busy Texas highway, where an SUV fatally struck him. Now, his grieving family is looking for answers.

On Tuesday, Sept. 23, around 4:50 p.m. local time, police responded to reports of a pedestrian and vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 54 near mile marker 24 in El Paso, police said in a news release .

The agency’s special traffic investigations unit began an investigation, which revealed that the victim, Joseph Nathaniel Ca

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