Police search for Connor Elliott Graham, 4, missing near Grafton Connor Elliott Graham was missing from his bed when his parents checked on him at 7am. Police are focusing their search for a missing four-year-old boy on the Clarence River in northern NSW, amid fears he wandered from his bed into the water. Connor Elliott Graham's parents came running and screaming down Chatsworth Road on Chatsworth Island, north of Grafton, on Thursday morning when they awoke to find their autistic son was not in his bed. They put their son to sleep on Christmas night wearing his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle pyjamas and checked on him at 3.30am. But when they checked again at 7am, the little boy was gone. The boy's aunt said the fly screen on his window had been pushed out and his toy elephant was found on the banks of the river, just metres from the home where he was staying. The family searched the home and yard before ringing police, who have called in the police helicopter, dog squad and local volunteers to help search the Clarence River and nearby cane fields. A neighbour said Connor, his parents and two younger siblings were visiting from Brisbane for Christmas and staying with an uncle and aunt. All four adults came running up the road screaming for help on Thursday morning, the neighbour said. ""We were out on our front verandah first thing this morning and the family came bolting up the road, just frantic, running in and out of every house asking if we'd seen a little redhead boy,"" she said. Connor's parents told the neighbour that the window screen in Connor's room had been pushed out and his little toy elephant found on the river bank. Chatsworth Island is accessible by bridge and the home Connor was staying at is on the river's edge. The surrounding area is mostly full of tall cane fields. Police have asked anyone who sees him to keep him safe and contact police immediately. Col Thompson, from the Grafton SES, said 29 volunteers had joined the search and were focusing on surrounding cane fields and the Clarence River. ""It's mainly cane crops around here. The young lad could be in the river or in amongst the cane fields and he wouldn't know where he is,"" Mr Thompson said. The manager of the Chatsworth Island General Store said almost every local in the small town had jumped in their boats to join water police, lifesavers, SES and marine rescue workers, who were trawling up and down the river. "Everyone's having a look around at the moment," she said. A neighbour said she could see people crying on the river banks.