If he had the opportunity to call his son, why didn't he do that first?
See step 5 above.
Have someone else call your kid. Schit ain't hard, and plenty of ways to do it without telling anyone what is going on. "Hey, my phone is acting stupid. Can you call my son for me?" Text the kid and ask if he wants to go out for pizza for dinner, or take his GF out this weekend, or whatever.
Seems so simple until you get the call and it's your kid.
If it was my kid, you could bet your ass that I'd be doing everything possible to verify and to get a HELLUVA lot of assistance and support on finding the kid and hopefully killing the SOBs involved ASAP.
Verification comes first, and there are a LOT of ways to skin that cat.
Kid probably has a best friend, right? Or GF/BF? Damned sure has a mother, and other relatives.
THINK.
