This is all just so unbelievably heartbreaking! By all accounts, SJ is a great, upstanding kid. No need to involve him in the step brother's criminal debts.
I can't help but wonder if that missed attendance report could have made all the difference in the world in helping him to be tracked down before the vehicle was abandoned and torched. Heads are gonna roll at TDSB for sure. Not being able to link those early morning 911 calls to this missing child until the evening hours certainly set the investigation back considerably.
Holding SJ & his family and friends in my thoughts and praying that he's soon reunited with them safe & sound.
ETA: I do find it promising that LE has already been in contact with both OO and the abductors... makes it seem far more likely that he is still alive, IMO.