WASHINGTON - A young developmentally disabled man who was lost on the Mall during the Inauguration Tuesday has been reunited with his family after spending 48 hours by himself.

Steven was found in good condition near the U.S. Capitol Thursday after what was an agonizing search for Calvin and Kathy Johnson -- Steven's parents and legal guardians. Steven is 21 but, they say, has the mental capacity of someone much younger. They worried their son was cold, confused and very much afraid. 

"We wanna get him to the hotel and get him cleaned up and everything," Calvin Johnson, Steven's father, said. "Feed him and whatever he wants."

"He says at times he slept under a tent and did a lot of walking around," Kathy Johnson added, describing what her son had told her of his ordeal. "He's slow at talking about a lot of stuff so as the days go by, we'll find out everything from him."

In fact, all of the some half-dozen people reported missing after the inauguration, most of them elderly or disabled, every single one had been found and reunited with their families as of Thursday morning.

The Johnson family came down from Boston to see the inauguration. As they were making their way onto the Mall, 21-year-old Steven was swept away in the crowd.

He reached his family briefly by cell phone on Tuesday afternoon, telling them he was on Pennsylvania Avenue but was ordered to move on. He then said he was on New Jersey Avenue and 3rd Street, but by the time his aunt and uncle got to that location, he was gone and his cell phone battery had gone dead.

"We all was walking the streets looking for him," Kathy Johnson said. "So each time, I said call me when you get here. And I'll call you when I get to these spots because he would tell me where he was."

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