Jenelle Evans and her family luckily avoided a potentially very scary situation on Tuesday afternoon. At about 2:30 pm local time in rural North Carolina, where the Teen Mom alum and her kids live, reports started coming in that Jenelle’s 14-year-old son Jace was missing.
The Brunswick County Sheriff’s Department rushed into action after Jace went unaccounted for after the school day, and marked him as a “runaway juvenile,” per TMZ.
They immediately began searching for the boy around the area of his school and home. They also reported to the media that he was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt that read Classical Charter Schools of America on it with a navy blue polo shirt beneath. Related: TikTok Star ‘Uncle Chris’ Checked Into Mental Health Facility After Being Reported Missing Thankfully, about an hour after he was first reported missing, Jace was spotted and reunited with his family.
Late on Tuesday afternoon, the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Department confirmed with media outlets in eastern North Carolina that Jace was positively identified and returned to the home of Jenelle and David Eason.
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