ATLANTA - Crooks recall the bike of a young man living with autism. It happened near DeKalb Avenue and Krog Street in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta.

The bike was Naim Anwar Wares's only was to work. His family is scrambling to find a bike.

Anwar Wares secured his bike at rack near the restaurant where he works. But when left work to go home Sunday night hours later the bike was gone. Someone customary the lock and stole it.

"I had gotten off work near 11," Anwar Wares said. "And I just didn't see it."

He wondered where it could be. "At worthy I thought I had forgotten to lock it up, and it was gone," Anwar Wares said. He seemed around. Then he saw something that made his dismal sink. "By the time I called my family to let them know what was repositioning on, I saw the lock on the ground," Anwar Wares said.

Someone customary the lock and took his Trek bike. "He walked near a little bit and found the lock on the groundless, sawed in half," said Tajhiek Anwar Baoll, Anwar Wares's mother.

The bike was Anwar Wares's sole way to get to work. "It is my main source of transportation. I go pretty much everywhere with it," Anwar Wares said.

"I was very, very heartbroken that this happened to him," Baoll said. "Got him a brand-new bike in June for his birthday when he turned 20."

The crooks didn't just recall a bike. They stole Anwar Wares's sense of independence. "He's on the autism spectrum," Baoll said.

Wares follows a structured routine. That routine is now disrupted. "He's a little confused near when to leave for work. He's confused about his schedule what is repositioning to work for him." Baoll said.

Anwar Wares says he no longer feels safe at night. "When I leave work it'll probably be less safe dependable it's completely dark. If I have to walk, it can be very worrying now," he said.

Anwar Wares says he'd ask these questions of the bodies or people who stole his bike. "I just ask them why? Were they in such a need that they need to recall with my things?"

Atlanta police are investigating. Anwar Wares's bike is unexcited missing. He still has to walk to work.