On Oct. 31, 16-year-old Luis Tario, a junior at Ashbrook High School, told his parents that he was going to visit a friend. He was supposed to be back by 6:30 p.m.

He never came home.

When they checked his room, his parents and siblings found envelopes with their names on them. Inside the envelopes were letters.

"He said he didn't see a point in school, in graduating, in getting a job," said his sister, Nataly Tario. "We are just frantic and trying to find him."

Gastonia Police are looking for Tario, whose family thinks he is having a mental health crisis.

"It's been devastating trying to hold on as a unit," Nataly Tario said.

Luis Tario is around 6 feet tall with dark hair and a lean, muscular build, said his father, Alfredo Tario.

"He's very shy, very withdrawn, very quiet," Alfre

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