NORMAL -- A severely disabled 12-year-old boy got off a Unit 5 school bus after autism camp at Parkside Junior High School and entered a house on Ardith Drive, Normal.

Hunter Smith made himself a ham and cheese sandwich, ate a banana, leaving the peel in the sink, and had some grapes and an apple. He sat down at the computer and got ready to play a game.

But the computer didn't work.

That's because it wasn't his family's computer. He was in the wrong house.

Meanwhile, Hunter's parents were worried because he was almost an hour late getting home and school officials didn't know where he was.

When the error was discovered, the bus returned to Ardith Drive, where Hunter was seen looking out the front door of the house. The bus picked him up and drove him several blocks to his Ethell Parkway home.

While Hunter got home safely Wednesday, his family and officials at the Unit 5 school district still were asking questions and trying to find answers Thursday. Hunter's parents, Jeff Smith and Cindy Wegner, met Thursday with Unit 5 officials to find out what happened and obtain assurances that it wouldn't happen again.

"We sat down with the parents today," Joe Adelman, Unit 5 director of operations, said Thursday. "We're still putting all the pieces together."

Less than 24 hours after the incident, it was too early to know what changes might be made to avoid such a situation in the future, he said.

The bus driver and monitor were suspended immediately, Superintendent Gary Niehaus said Wednesday. Possible further consequences will be determined when the investigation is complete, he said.

Hunter's parents took him to school and picked him up Thursday and likely will take turns doing so for most of the camp's remaining two weeks just for piece of mind, Jeff Smith said.

"I'm still shaking over this," he said of the stressful experience.

After reading about Hunter in Thursday's Pantagraph, the owners of the home he entered called Smith to let him know what Hunter apparently did in their house.

Their story made sense to Smith because it fit his son's routine, but he said he thinks Unit 5 is underestimating the time Hunter was in that house, judging from everything he apparently did.

Hunter didn't seem to understand anything was amiss, even after he got home about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.

"I wish I knew what he was thinking," his father said.