The continued search for Maddox Ritch, a 6-year-old boy who was reported missing Saturday at Ranking Lake Park.

1:35 p.m.

Police have closed Martin Luther King Road from Rankin Lake Road to Grier Beam Road and have asked media to gather at Sims Legion Park.

12:38 p.m.

Here's the message being sent to city residents.

This is the Gastonia Police Department calling with an important message. If you were at Rankin Lake Park on Saturday, Sept. 22, you are asked to please call the police tip line in connection with the case of 6-year-old Maddox Ritch. Maddox was reported missing from Rankin Lake Park on Saturday. He has blond hair, blue eyes, weighs 45 pounds, and is 4 feet tall. He was wearing an orange T-shirt with lettering “I'm the Man.” He was also wearing black shorts, and closed toe sandals. Maddox is autistic and does not talk. If you were at Rankin Lake Park on Saturday, police need your help to put together a timeline to help solve the case. Please call the tip line at 704-869-1075.

11:03 a.m.

The city of Gastonia is conducting a reverse 911 call to residents in the effort to find people who were at Rankin Lake Park on Saturday.

Police investigators are trying to talk to people who may have been at the park Saturday when 6-year-old Maddox Ritch was reported missing.

The call asks people who were at the park to call the special tip line: 704-869-1075.

7:05 a.m.

The FBI's Underwater Search and Evidence Response Team will report to Rankin Lake Park and be using different equipment than what has been used in previous searches of the water. Officers say they want to make sure searchers employ every available tool to search the lake.

It is still being drained, which will soon make it impossible to put large boats in the water, according to police.

Police still want to talk to people who were at Rankin Lake Park on Saturday. Call the Gastonia Police Department on its special tip line number, 704-869-1075. Police want to talk with everyone at the park on Saturday to find all possible clues or valuable witnesses in the case.