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80-year-old man with dementia missing since Aug. 17
A family member told 3 News Now that they are concerned for his safety due to the extreme heat this week.
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OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — An Omaha man with dementia is missing and police are asking for the public's help. Eighty-year-old Levi Blake was last seen on Aug. 17 at 4 p.m. near 33rd and Lake Streets. A family member told 3 News Now that they are concerned for his safety due to the extreme heat this week.
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PLEASE SHARE: Levi Blake, 80, was last seen on Thursday, August 17th around 4 p.m. near 33rd and Lake Streets. Mr. Blake is 5'9", 150 pounds, and...
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August 24
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Levi Blake, 80, was last seen on Thursday, August 17th around 4 p.m. near 33rd and Lake Streets. Mr. Blake is 5'9", 150 pounds, and generally wears slacks and a t-shirt. However, it is unknown what he was wearing at the time he was last seen. Mr. Blake is diagnosed with dementia.
Please contact 911 if you know where Mr. Blake is. Contact Omaha Police at 402-444-4877 with any other helpful information you may have regarding his whereabouts. Thank you!
Omaha Police looking for missing elderly man with dementia
Omaha Police are asking for help finding a missing elderly man diagnosed with dementia.
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OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Omaha Police are asking for help finding a missing elderly man diagnosed with dementia.
According to authorities, 80-year-old Levi Blake was last seen around 4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17 near 33rd and Lake streets, around a block from his home.
“He’s a charismatic person,” Blake’s son Terrance Collier said. “A lot of people know him, which makes it odd that he hasn’t been seen or anything.”
Collier said his father’s dementia is significant enough that caregivers assist him a few hours a day, and that he sometimes forgets that Collier is his son.
“It wouldn’t happen too often,” he said. “But every now and again, I have to remind him who I am.”
Adding to the urgency is the fact that Blake has disappeared during a period when temperatures outside have been dangerously high.
Family members reported Blake missing last Friday, and Omaha police said they assigned an investigator to the case Monday.
OPD announced on social media late last night that it needs the public’s help in finding Blake.
However, family members feel it took authorities a long time to put that alert out.
“This is a human life,” Collier said. “He’s out here in these extreme conditions and I just feel a little more effort could be put into trying to help us find him.”
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From this KETV video -- he resided in a senior living home and went for a walk.
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In this KOWT video -- Omaha PD says he doesn't meet the criteria for an Emergency Missing Alert because he doesn't have 24-hr a day supervision and is able to come and go from his residence.
Family is trying to get together a search party of volunteers.
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Unbelievable!
August 17 - Went for a walk from his residence in a senior living home and didn't return. Temperatures were dangerously hot.
August 18 - Reported missing.
August 21 - Omaha PD assigned an investigator to the case.
August 24 - Omaha PD made a statement asking for the public's help.
There is no Silver Alert and no Endangered Missing Alert.