(Radio Iowa) – Hundreds helped search Sunday for a missing boy who was last seen late Thursday morning in Montezuma. Sunday was Xavior Harrelson’s 11th birthday. About 375 volunteers and 125 law enforcement officers searched areas within a mile of the boy’s home and in rural areas around Montezuma.

Mitch Mortvedt of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation spoke with K-C-R-G T-V. “We covered a lot of area, a lot of territory,” he said. “We couldn’t be more appreciative of the people that did show up.” Mortvedt says this is classified as a missing child case — NOT a kidnapping.

Xavior Harrelson

Searchers have gone door-to-door in Montezuma and dive teams have searched Diamond Lake which is about a mile west of Montezuma.