Missing Iowa boy: Investigators ask for surveillance video to help in their search for ... - 0 views
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Authorities are seeking the public's help in the search for an 11-year-old boy who remains missing in Central Iowa after hundreds of people spent part of Memorial Day weekend looking for him.
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Xavior Harrelson was reported missing May 27 in Montezuma, Iowa, nearly 60 miles east of Des Moines, the Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post. The FBI is assisting local authorities in the search, Amy Adams, a spokeswoman for the FBI Omaha field office, said on Thursday.
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The boy was reported missing less than a week after completing the fourth grade at Montezuma Elementary School, Principal Kurt Hanna told CNN.
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The sheriff's office believes the boy was wearing blue pajama bottoms, a red T-shirt and black tennis shoes, the post said. The boy has brown hair and blue eyes, weighs about 100 pounds and is about 4-foot-8.
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Mitch Mortvedt, the assistant director of Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, told CNN that the search for Xavior on Sunday in the Montezuma area drew more than 500 people -- 375 volunteers and 125 from law enforcement. The FBI also assisted in that search.
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Xavior lives with his mother in a trailer home in Montezuma. The city has a population of about 1,300 people.
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The Poweshiek County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday requested that people provide surveillance video in or near Montezuma so that it can be examined by investigators. Montezuma Mayor Jacki Bolen told CNN affiliate KCCI the city is suffering as it waits for the boy to be found.
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Mortvedt told CNN on Thursday that Rix had reported Xavior missing. Rix told KCCI that she learned the boy was gone when she spoke with his mother on the phone. The mother and other family members are cooperating with authorities, Mortvedt said.