A Salem boy who went missing Wednesday was finally found safe by a passerby after he had gone to a friend’s house to play video games after school.

Dylan Wood, 7, was last seen about 3:30 p.m. as he left Hallman Elementary School to walk home, Salem Police Lt. Dave Okada said Thursday. Police were called two hours later after he hadn’t come home. Dylan was described as a thin, 4-foot-tall blonde with blue eyes, who was last seen in a black, polo-style shirt. He had a Transformers backpack. Okada said officers rushed to the scene, scouring the school grounds, other known friends’ houses and nearby parks.

Salem police also activated the A Child Is Missing Alert program — a system advertised as being able to send 1,000 alert calls in the space of a minute — to help notify nearby businesses and residents that Dylan was missing.

Law enforcement officials didn’t trigger an AMBER Alert for Dylan.”There are certain prerequisite requirements for an AMBER Alert,” Okada said. “Among them are probable cause to believe the child was abducted, and one of the others is a solid suspect vehicle description. We had neither.”