Ricky Quick Says They Are Not The Same Boy

POSTED: 6:58 p.m. CDT April 30, 2003
UPDATED: 10:05 p.m. CDT April 30, 2003

CHICAGO -- As the family of Buddy Myers (pictured) waits for word on whether their
loved one has been found, NBC5's Mary Ann Ahern said that the
FBI tried to move ahead faster by checking the blood types of Eli
and Buddy Myers.

Those tests, however, came back inconclusive on Wednesday,
meaning the FBI cannot rule out the possibility that Eli Quick, the
child recently left at an area hospital, is actually Buddy Myers, a
missing North Carolina boy. Eli shares the same blood type as the mother of Buddy
Myers, Raven Myers, but that is not conclusive proof he is Raven's son.

In addition to checking blood type, the FBI is looking at birth
records, Ahern said, and NBC5 learned more about what the
man at the center of the story is telling the FBI.

Ricky Quick, the man who brought Eli to St. Francis Hospital in
Evanston in February, told reporters Wednesday afternoon
that there is just no way the boys are one in the same.

"That's my son," Quick said of Eli.

Referring to the missing North Carolina child, Quick said, "The
little boy has brown eyes. Mine's got blue."

Quick said the boy's mother was a drug-addicted prostitute
who gave Quick the boy when Eli was 7-months-old. She later
died from a drug overdose, he claimed.

Former Rogers Park neighbors of Ricky and Eli Quick say they
often found the 6-year-old out at all hours, filthy and hungry.
They tell reporters that it appeared that the boy never went
to school.

Quick said it's been a difficult year since his wife, Sharon, died
in a car accident in Colorado, but he assured reporters that he
had raised Eli "since childhood."

"He was not abused or hurt," Quick said. "I did the best I can. That's it."

Quick left the boy at the suburban hospital nearly three months ago and never came
back for him, Ahern said, but Quick said he knew it would be difficult to get him back
because he had no birth records.

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But look at
www2.amw.com/site/thisweek/M/ MyersTristan/myersindex.html

They list Buddy's eyes as BLUE - - Ricky Quick is wrong.