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By Aya Elamroussi and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN
Updated 1:47 PM ET, Thu June 3, 2021
Iowa authorities say 11-year-old Xavior Harrelson was reported missing May 27. (CNN)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.
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, confirmed on Thursday.
Every morning, Kevin and Kelly Kautzer play the card game UNO in the kitchen of their rural Montezuma mobile home.
And every morning, they said, they always see the boy next door 11-year-old Xavior Harrelson riding his blue bike outside their north-facing window. I think he tries to get our daughter s attention, said Kelly Kautzer, 51. She s 10, and they play and ride bikes together all the time. I think he has a little crush on her.
But on the morning of May 27, Kevin and Kelly Kautzer didn t see Harrelson outside.
“I’ve never seen him leave the mobile home park except to go to school,” said Kevin Kautzer, 59. By then, Montezuma schools had already started their summer vacation.