Sixteen-year-old Connor Lambird was found safe Wednesday, ending the Washington County deputies' search. He was last seen Tuesday afternoon in Beaverton near Northwest Schmidt Way, not far from Highway 26 at Cornell Road. He was last seen around 2:30 p.m., wearing a blue shirt under a black and blue jacket, Timberland boots, and a black 49ers hat.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office had treated Lambird as a missing person, according to KATU. Lambird is described as 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing about 160 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
Where He Was Last Spotted
The stretch of Northwest Schmidt Way where Lambird was last seen sits in a densely packed pocket of Beaverton, surrounded by multi-family apartment complexes and within close reach of major thoroughfares including US Highway 26 and Oregon Route 217, per Apartments.com. The area is also served by TriMet, whose MAX Light Rail lines and bus routes connect Beaverton to the wider Portland metro area, the same source notes — a detail that underscores just how many directions someone on foot could travel from that spot.
How Missing Youth Cases Move Through the System
Once local officers establish probable cause in certain custodial interference or kidnapping cases involving a child, Oregon law under ORS 181A.310 requires them to notify the Oregon State Police clearinghouse within 24 hours, according to the Portland Police Bureau. Separately, Oregon State Police maintains a statewide Missing Children and Adults Clearinghouse under ORS 181A.300, which shares data with local agencies, school districts, and federal databases including the Law Enforcement Data System and the National Crime Information Center. Oregon State Police guidelines also make clear there is no mandatory waiting period before a missing juvenile report can be filed — agencies are expected to accept such reports immediately.
Washington County Sheriff Caprice Massey was elected in May 2024 as the county's 33rd sheriff and became the first woman to hold the position in the agency's history, per the Oregon State Sheriffs' Association.
National Context for Missing Youth Cases
Missing teen cases like Lambird's unfold against a backdrop of national trends tracked by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which says it supported 32,167 missing children cases nationwide in 2025 and achieved a 90% overall recovery rate. The organization tracks missing-child cases, including cases involving runaway youth.
Lambird was found safe Wednesday.
