Search continues for missing 6-year-old boy with autism

He's been missing since Saturday

Credit: WRAL

GASTONIA, N.C. – More agencies are helping with the search for a missing 6-year-old boy in North Carolina.

The FBI is now involved in the search for Maddox Ritch, who has autism and is nonverbal, according to WRAL.

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He was last seen Saturday in Rankin Lake Park, which is about 23 miles west of Charlotte.

Ritch is 4 feet tall, weighs about 45 pounds and has blond hair and green eyes.

He was last seen wearing black shorts and a shirt reading, "I am the man."

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call 911 or the Gastonia Police Department at 1-704-866-3300.