NY police searching for nonverbal autistic boy, 7, who vanished from family party

Upstate New York police have launched a frantic search for a nonverbal autistic boy and nephew of a Michigan mayor who vanished from a party on Sunday afternoon.

Harbe Nagi, 7, was last seen at a graduation celebration in Menands, a village just north of Albany, around 4:10 p.m. on Sunday before he was believed to have wandered off, according to WNYT and the Menands Police Department.

Nagi, who is autistic and nonverbal, does not live in the neighborhood and primarily speaks Arabic. He remains missing as of Monday night, police said.

The boy is the nephew of Hamtramck, Michigan, Mayor Adam Alharbi, who has flown to New York to be with his family and asked the public to keep the boy in their thoughts, according to Clickondetroit and WNYT…

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