Missing 12-year-old found safe 2 days after getting on wrong school bus

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A 12-year-old boy who disappeared after getting on the wrong school bus on his way home from Redan Middle School Wednesday has been found.

School police and DeKalb County police searched for Anthony Randolph III for two days.

Friday afternoon, Channel 2's Tyisha Fernandes learned that Anthony was found at a gas station not far from his home. The details of where he's been and how he was found are still unknown.

Investigators say Anthony, a sixth-grade honor roll student, got off the bus on Hairston Place and Guide Post Lane, 2 miles away from his home. He wasn’t supposed to be on that bus and school officials are still working to figure out why the bus driver didn’t take him back to the school.

Fernandes spoke to Anthony's father Friday morning.

“We need you home, Anthony. Fast, please,” the boy’s father, Anthony Randolph Jr., said at the time.

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Randolph wiped his tears as he begged anyone with information on the disappearance of his son to come forward.

“It was an absolute normal day. He woke up. He made his lunch for school. He got dressed and I went off to work that morning,” Randolph said.

He said he has a surveillance camera mounted on his Stone Mountain home and watched his son leave. That was the last time he saw him.

“I know he left the house on time and he definitely got on his bus. It seemed like a normal day,” Randolph said.

Officials said they’re investigating the bus driver's actions because Anthony's parents say the bus driver should have taken Anthony back to school.

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