When Travon Little left home Thursday morning for school in Manhattan, he was carrying a fistful of quarters.The 13-year-old's cell phone had broken earlier that week. His mother, Teresa, gave him the coins to make sure the boy could call home if he decided to hang out with friends that afternoon.
But Travon never phoned home that night. He never arrived at his New Brighton doorstep either.
The 5-foot-6, 110-pound, African-American teen has been reported missing since 9:55 a.m. Friday, police said. He was last seen at the 6 subway station at East 77th Street and Lexington Avenue, said his mother.
Travon, who has asthma, was wearing a beige T-shirt, light blue trunk shorts, blue and white Nike sneakers and a black and gray Jansport backpack, she said. Ms. Little is not sure if Travon has an asthma inhaler with him.
"I'm hoping he's at a friend's house," said Ms. Little, as she was preparing to head to Manhattan with a batch of missing child flyers.
Travon had attended Robert Wagner Middle School on 76th Street between Second and Third avenues for two years. He graduated from the eighth-grade the week before last, but was finishing out his last few days of school.
After completing the sixth grade at William Morris Intermediate School in Brighton Heights, Travon transferred to Robert Wagner Middle School because, at the time, his mother was working at a pharmacy only a block away.
She believes he took the 6 train uptown from East 77th Street because a friend of his reported seeing him at the subway station Thursday after school. ¶
Travon did not show up to school Friday morning to pick up his diploma.
Anyone with information about Travon's whereabouts is asked to call the NYPD's 120th Precinct stationhouse at 718-876-8500 or his mother at 646-641-2499 or 646-421-8775.
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