South Carolina

Search ends for missing Lexington teen, police say

By Chiara Eisner and Noah Feit
Micah Longstreet
Micah Longstreet

A runaway teen has returned to his home, the Lexington Police Department said Tuesday.

Micah Longstreet, 18, was reported missing by police on Monday, two days after he left home.

Police said Longstreet was with his family, but further information on his condition was not available.

There was urgency to find Longstreet, who has a mental health condition, according to Sgt. Cameron Mortenson, a spokesman for the police department.

There was no word on why Longstreet left home, or where he was while he was missing.

“Thank you to those who shared this story and provided tips for our investigators to follow up on,” police said on Twitter.

This story was originally published July 5, 2021 at 2:12 PM.

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Chiara Eisner
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Chiara Eisner investigates and reports high-impact stories across the state of South Carolina. She is the newspaper’s 2021 Journalist of the Year and the South Carolina Press Association’s Assertive Journalist of the Year. The Secrets of the Death Chamber series she reported for The State was a finalist in the national 2021 Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Award competition. Her reporting on the harvest of horseshoe crabs in South Carolina was part of the package that earned her honorable mention in the 2021 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award, an annual prize for science journalists.
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Noah Feit is a Real Time reporter with The State focused on breaking news, public safety and trending news. The award-winning journalist has worked for multiple newspapers since starting his career in 1999. Support my work with a digital subscription
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