@CNN: The six-day search for Maddox Ritch, the 6-year-old boy with autism who went missing at a North Carolina park, ended with the discovery of a body in a creek, officials said.

“I’m heartbroken,” Gastonia Police Chief Robert Helton said. https://t.co/E2NXgNKJGv https://t.co/l5sAeEaILv

The six-day search for Maddox Ritch, the 6-year-old boy with autism who went missing at a North Carolina park, ended with the discovery of a body in a creek, officials said.

"I'm heartbroken," Gastonia Police Chief Robert Helton said. https://t.co/E2NXgNKJGv pic.twitter.com/l5sAeEaILv

— CNN (@CNN) September 27, 2018