School, 911 employees on leave after student with autism wanders, drowns

Trevyan Rowe

Trevyan Rowe

Several 911 center and school employees have been suspended following the death of a 14-year-old boy with autism who walked away unnoticed from his upstate New York school and apparently drowned.

Rochester school officials said Tuesday at least three staff members marked Trevyan Rowe present last Thursday, even though surveillance video shows him walking away from School 12 after getting off the bus.

According to WROC, our sister station in Rochester, the superintendent said the system’s default marks students “present” if nothing is entered.

But the school board president said Tuesday someone tried to change the attendance records for Treyvan to hide the “errors,” according to WROC.

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