Missing Hutch teen returns home safely
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
7:56 AM

Missing Hutch teen returns home safely

A Hutchinson teenager who ran away April 3 is back at home after police found him in Wichita.

Dakota Sherry, 17, was spotted by police in the Rock Road area Monday afternoon and returned home to Hutchinson that night.

Prior to Monday, Sherry was last heard from April 4, when he called his family from a Towanda truck stop. Jim Sherry said his son had been in Wichita the entire 21/2 weeks of his disappearance, living out of his car.

"I think it was just a combination of being 17 and leaving and then he wasn't sure how to make that phone call to come home," Jim Sherry said. "We are just so relieved and thankful to have him home. We are so appreciative to the whole community for the way they came around us and supported us through this."

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