The search for the student began after his mother notified officials that he never made it home from school.
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Police found Lee lying in the aisle near the front of the bus parked in a Whittier school district parking lot.
A transportation company picked the man up on Friday morning to bring him to an adult school.
The situation turned into a tragedy after the bus driver returned to check his bus.
A 19-year-old student with severe autism in Whittier, Calif.
Police are investigating the possibility the student may have been left on the bus all day.
But police investigators are treating the death as suspicious because the victim had no medical conditions. “That’s when the bus driver walked to the bus yard and that’s when he discovered the student”.
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The family has established a GoFundMe account to help with funeral costs. My family is completely torn apart and heart broken, knowing what he had felt during those painful hours. “Inside the bus was about 120 to 130 degrees fahrenheit and Paul was trapped in there for almost 9 hours without a single drop of water”.
