THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, May 21, 1996 TAG: 9605210349
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG LENGTH: Short : 33 lines
A man who disappeared the day his parents thought he would graduate from Virginia Tech walked into a West Virginia police station during the weekend and called his parents, authorities and his family said.
Brad Wagner wanted to let his parents know he was OK and that he left Blacksburg voluntarily, said Lt. B.E. Bradbery of the Williamson, W.Va., Police Department.
``Brad is just fine and back in Bristol,'' his father, John R. Wagner, said Sunday.
The younger Wagner surfaced Saturday night when he walked into the police station in Williamson, W.Va. He was still driving the car he had rented just before disappearing from Blacksburg a week earlier, Trooper David Nelson said.
Wagner had told his family and friends that he would receive a chemical engineering degree from Tech on May 11. But he had left school three years earlier, though his parents continued to send money for tuition and living expenses.
``We haven't discussed a whole lot just yet,'' his father said Sunday. ``All the answers will come later, I guess.'' by CNB