Boy missing for three days after storming out of class home safe, family says

Sam Gross
Reno Gazette-Journal
Christian Everidge, 13, in the Clayton Middle School uniform his father said he was last wearing.

After three days missing, 13-year-old Christian Everidge has returned home, his family says. 

His grandmother Debbie Smith, who rode Amtrak to Reno from Martinez, Calif. after she heard Christian was missing, said he showed up at the door at about 11:00 p.m. last night. 

"We're just happy he's safe," Smith said. "I just can't believe all the support we got here from Reno. It was unbelievable; it was excellent." 

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Christian's father, Jason Everidge, told the Reno Gazette Journal on Sunday that the seventh-grade student at Clayton Middle School stormed out of class on Friday after being punished for skipping class that morning. 

Jason's pleas for help in finding his son circulated widely in Northern Nevada, driving support and tips to the family. 

It was three days before Christian came home. 

Smith said Christian was afraid to call his dad because he thought he would be in trouble. 

"I was hanging out with my friends," Christian told the Reno Gazette Journal on Monday. "We we're by the river, going in with the rapids and stuff."

Christian is the son of Cherissa Davidson, who was brutally murdered by her boyfriend in 2011 in what investigators described as a "frenzied attack." 

Davidson was stabbed eleven times by her boyfriend Brian Robert Hobbs, who first buried her body in their backyard before digging her up and dumping her down a ravine in Carson City.