Two San Diego County sheriff’s deputies and an off-duty dispatcher are being credited with saving the life of an 11-year-old boy with autism who was found wandering in freeway traffic earlier this year.
The incident happened on March 9 after the child went missing from a Vons grocery store around 4:30 p.m. while shopping with his family. Over the course of about 45 minutes, he had wandered more than two miles and ended up near State Route 52 and Mast Boulevard, where he ran into traffic.
