The dad of a missing 17-year-old boy who was spotted on an influencer’s livestream has revealed what happened to his son.
As previously reported, Troy Coleman was reported missing by his family after he was last seen in Mt. Morris Township, Michigan, on May 17.
The teen's loved ones were granted good news after he was reportedly seen 1,200 miles away on a content creator named FaZe Lacy's livestream.
Lacy shared a post on X (formerly Twitter) about the missing boy, writing: “Yesterday on stream he came up to me and Clix and now his family knows he is alive and in Miami. I wasn’t sure if I should make this public but I'm hoping somehow this helps him be found for his family."
Watch the moment below:A video of the stream was shared online and showed the moment Troy, who was shirtless and donning green shorts, talked to the influencer while they ate al fresco at a restaurant.
Lacy revealed in the post that Troy's brother, Trent Coleman, reportedly sent him an email stating that he believed that his brother popped up randomly in the clip.
"Hello, my name is Trent Coleman and my missing little brother from Michigan was on Clix and Lacy's stream in Miami," the email read.
"He was wearing green shorts and they were making fun of him, he is not on drugs he is schizophrenic and he is 17 years old if someone can contact me about this I would be so thankful he has been missing for 3 months and his case was put on homicide in Michigan," they added.
For about six weeks, Troy's father Weston Coleman was constantly out on the road looking for his son.
According to PEOPLE, the dad revealed that on the day of his disappearance, his son was sleeping at his grandfather’s house. The teen then told his grandfather that he was going to the store.
Unfortunately, Troy never returned from the store, his dad said, adding: “I came back two hours later and he wasn't here, and I've been keeping a tight eye on him, so I was like, where'd he go?
“My dad said, ‘Oh, he went to the store.’ He didn't think anything was wrong. Then I immediately knew that something was wrong because I couldn't find him in the neighborhood. So I called the police, the police came over here, made a report, and he didn't come home that night," he shared.
Surveillance footage revealed that the boy got on a public bus and then rode another one that took him to a local mall where he hung out all day.
Then on the following day, he went on a Greyhound bus bound for Atlanta and didn't enter his name into the system when he paid his fare, which is why his family lost track of his whereabouts.
Coleman went through his son's belongings and found that he made searches about about Key West, Florida. So he drove there with a friend to look for Troy and alerted the police about their distressing situation. However, after seven days, they came up with nothing and left.
The family feared that the teen was dead as he had never run away from home before. “I drove around for so many days and so many nights looking for him," Weston said. "I looked for him so hard, I couldn't understand how he could have lived through it with nothing.
“I was up and down like a rollercoaster,” he continued. “Sometimes you think he's alive, sometimes you think he's dead. It was horrible.”
About 50 days after Troy vanished, an unnamed individual came across Lacy's livestream and notified the teen's older brother. The family then informed the Miami Beach Police Department who "went on the hunt for him".
On July 4, Weston "woke up that afternoon to Flint Township [police] pounding on my door saying that they found him".
Since returning to Michigan, the teenager has been recovering in hospitals both in Florida and his hometown. The family is hopeful that Troy will be better by his 18th birthday, in August.
Upon seeing the live stream featuring his son, Weston said he was "upset that people were kind of making fun of him, but I was glad that they found him, and that's the most important thing".
"And I just didn't think those kids understood what he was going through. I wish they would've been a little nicer to him, but at the same time, they helped find him and didn't even know it," he added.
He also shared that his son may have run away to Florida because he had developed an urge to go to find celebrities.
“[My dad and I] went and picked him up, brought him home, and I said, ‘Troy, why are you searching up how to get to Florida?’" Weston recalled. "And he just simply said, ‘I just never been there before.’ And then when I was talking to him, I said, ‘Troy, why'd you go down to Florida?’ He said, ‘Dad, I was looking for famous people.’”