A local family is asking for the public's help in finding a 2-year-old boy believed to have been taken by his father.

The toddler, Luke Turner, lives in Colorado. The child's mother, Brandy, is originally from Brooke County and his grandmother and extended family on his mother's side still live in the Ohio Valley.

On the "To Find Luke" Facebook page, you can see how many people are concerned about finding the boy. The number of supporters on the Facebook page has more than doubled in just a week.

Organizers of the page hope to notify as many people as they can about Luke and his disappearance in as many states as possible, and Luke's family is generating support in the Ohio Valley in hopes of raising funds to hire a private investigator to find the child.

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Authorities in Colorado said witnesses last saw Luke with his father, Monty Turner, camping just days before the Fourth of July holiday.

David Stiles, Luke's great uncle and Brandy's uncle, said, "The person that runs the campground where he left from said he left between midnight and 1 a.m. on Monday night. … The owner of the campsite said, 'I hope this boy doesn't show up on a milk carton.'"

Stiles said there is a lot of uncertainty about where Monty would have gone, and although the motive is not very clear, police believe Turner feared if his wife divorced him, he'd never see the boy again.

"Brandy was told by one other family member that when they questioned him as to why he was doing this, he said, because since we're separated, he knew Brandy was probably going to divorce him and move to West Virginia (and) he'd never see the boy again, so he was just going to take him."

Family member said it's possible Luke's disappearance could have been planned.

"He took certain papers and left certain papers and the papers he took were the boy's Social Security and birth certificate and so forth, so things don't sound right," Stiles said.

Stiles set up a fund at WesBanco Bank to collect money that can go toward hiring a private investigator to find Luke and his father. The address for donations for the fund is:

Luke Turner Fund
C/O WesBanco Bank
One Bank Plaza
Wheeling, W.Va. 26003

Anyone with information is asked to immediately call police.