Relatives, friends, community members and strangers continued to comb the streets of Village De L'Est Sunday in search of Bryan Vasquez, a nonverbal 12-year-old boy on the autism spectrum who disappeared from his home early Thursday morning.

Some rode all-terrain vehicles through the New Orleans East neighborhood, handing out missing person fliers that had been translated in Spanish, English and Vietnamese. Others walked through the heat and high grass alongside waterways choked with weeds and water hyacinths, looking for any trace of the boy.

Meanwhile, his mother, Hilda Vasquez, 34, and others anxiously kept vigil at the community's search headquarters set up outside her home in the 5300 block of Beaucaire Street, under borrowed tents and tables.

"I want my child. He is my life," Hi

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