'I should’ve caught him': Father of missing autistic boy blames himself for son's disappearance from park as search continues
Six-year-old Maddox Ritch has been missing since last Saturday, and there is still no clue as to his whereabouts
It was previously reported the FBI would be joining the hunt for missing autistic, and non-verbal, six-year-old boy, Maddox Ritch, who went missing on the afternoon of September 22. Nearly a week later, there's little in the way of updates towards the boy's whereabouts.
Maddox disappeared from his father, Ian Ritch's side at around 1:30 pm at Rankin Lake Park in Gastonia, North Carolina, and has not been seen since. Commenting on the incident, Gastonia Police spokeswoman Rachel Bagley said, "They got around to the back side of the lake. He started running, according to the parents, and when they started running after him, they lost sight of him, and no one has seen him ever since."