RAW Video,News Crew Assists Mom Who Finds Missing Teen Bound in Crawl Space

GERMANTOWN, Md. (WUSA) -- The 14 year old teen Montgomery County Police had been looking for has been found bound and semi-conscious in the crawl space of his own home in the 11300 block of Rambling Road in Germantown.



While interviewing neighbors, members of the media were summoned into the house by family members who came outside yelling, "Come in. Come in."

Upon entering the house, the news media found that 14-year-old Lionel Youkam had been discovered in the crawl space of the 2-story house. The boy was pulled from the crawl space to a narrow closet area. At that point, 9NEWS NOW Reporter Dave Statter, a former firefighter and EMT, helped tend to the boy who was semi-conscious and had something around his neck.

Montgomery Co. Police and Fire Rescue arrived a short time later. The teen was taken from the house by ambulance.

Youkam called his mother from home Wednesday afternoon. When the mother returned, Lionel was missing.

Last updated: 2/28/2008 5:43:57 PM