Amber alert issued for 2-year-old who requires ventilator: Vancouver police

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· Posted: Mar 13, 2025 4:14 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Police successful Vancouver person issued an amber alert for a missing two-year-old lad that investigators accidental is connected a ventilator. 

The boy, Theodore Lim, is 2 feet gangly and weighs 35 pounds, according to police. He has abbreviated brownish hairsbreadth and was wearing each grey covering and achromatic shoes erstwhile helium went missing Thursday morning.

Theodore is presently without a portion of his ventilator, and authorities are disquieted he may spell into aesculapian distress. The ventilator is described as a 12x12-inch achromatic container with an apparatus that attaches to the child's face.

According to the alert, the kid went missing from 2780 East Broadway. The code matches that of a household work centre. 

In a quality release, Vancouver constabulary accidental Theodore was abducted by his father, Davis Lim, extracurricular West Coast Family Centre.

Investigators accidental Theodore and Lim were past seen moving westbound connected Broadway from Kaslo Street astatine 10:40 a.m. PT.

Vancouver constabulary judge Theodore is with Lim and 2 sisters, who are 8 and 11 years old.

Lim is a 150-pound, five-foot, nine-inch antheral with achromatic hair, according to police. He was past seen wearing a greenish T-shirt, achromatic pants and achromatic shoes. Police judge helium whitethorn beryllium travelling successful a bluish 2006 Volkswagen Jetta with the B.C. licence sheet 325 VCH oregon a black 2010 BMW X5, B.C. licence sheet 324 VCH.

Anyone who sees them is advised not to attack but to telephone 911 immediately. 

An amber alert is issued by constabulary erstwhile a kid nether the property of 18 has been abducted and is believed to beryllium successful danger.