Police Searching Park For Missing Long Island Teenager
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) -- Police are searching for a missing teen on Long Island as family members grow more concerned.
Nineteen-year-old Louis Germosen of New Cassel disappeared on June 28.
"I just hope that he just got hurt and somebody have him inside of their house and he's going to come back alive," his mother, Martha Flores, said.
On Sunday, a flurry of anonymous text messages sent his mother, father and stepmother to Hempstead Lake State Park to a pond. The message said to "check" along with the words, "good luck God bless," CBS2's Carolyn Gusoff reported.
"We're going to search. We've been searching, following leads. It doesn't matter who or where, overnight, asking people. We go to stores, places he used to frequent and checked all the leads," his father, Louis Germosen, said.
Adding to their worst fears is the possibility of gang involvement. While his parents said he was not a gang member, friends told them the teen may have last been seen with alleged MS-13 members.
"I mean, he's a good kid," said his stepmother, Suzanne Bayer. "Now we're finding out, you know, maybe gang involvement. You know, one gang, hearing something about MS-13 now. We're scared to death."
"We want him to come back. We don't care if he got in trouble with anybody," his mother said. "If he thinks we mad at him because he's been gone too many days, we don't care. We just want to know he's OK. That's all we want to know."
New York State Park police searched Sunday along with Nassau water rescue and canine units.
"It's like hell," Bayer said. "It's every parent's worst nightmare. You know, it won't happen to you, then all of a sudden it happens to you, you can't describe it. I can't even explain it."
A portion of the park is closed as the search continues.
