Missing Kyrin Carter Update: 12-Year-Old Autistic Child Could Be In Danger, Family Says

The search for a 12-year-old boy with autism continued Sunday, prompting authorities to seek the public's help in finding him. Kyrin Carter went missing Saturday after he wandered away from a hotel in Hammond, Indiana.

Police said the family had arrived in the city just days ago from Kansas City, Missouri, to visit some relatives. Video footage from the hotel shows the boy leaving the building Saturday afternoon. A flyer released Sunday read that the boy could be in danger and was in need of medical attention, according to CBS Local.

"He's my whole world. He means everything to me," Carter's mom, Danielle Duckworth, told ABC7 Chicago. She urged the public to help in the search for her son. "Everything that I do is for him, everything."

Police said the boy was wearing blue shorts with possibly blue or white stripes, a blue t-shirt, but was not wearing socks or shoes. Deputies from multiple agencies, including the Porter County Search and Rescue team, along with their K9s, searched for the boy. A helicopter, a team of divers and boats also joined the search.

"We've had canine drones and the helicopters, and everything you can imagine out here," Lieutenant Steve Kellogg, with the Hammond Police Department, told local media. "Everybody's out here doing whatever they can."

"Until our efforts have been fully exhausted anyway, we're going to keep trying," he said, adding that the Department of Natural Resources used sonar equipment to check in the Little Calumet River, which runs behind the hotel where the boy was last seen.

Police described Carter as a Black male with light skin, who is "non-verbal but is highly functional."

"We haven't done any credible phone calls which probably tells us that he's stayed within those confines and it hasn't hit the public area too much," Lt. Kellogg said, adding that anyone with information must call 911.