A physique has been discovered amid a seek for a Texas teenager who went lacking on Christmas Eve, authorities stated Tuesday.
Camila Mendoza Olmos, 19, was final seen Wednesday morning, in accordance with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Workplace. Sheriff’s deputies and volunteers have been looking across the clock for her since and there was info to recommend she was in “imminent hazard,” in accordance with Sheriff Javier Salazar.
Whereas looking an space Tuesday afternoon, authorities discovered a physique in a area roughly 100 yards from Mendoza Olmos’ house, in northwest Bexar County, Salazar stated.
“At this level we do not suspect foul play,” he stated throughout a press briefing.
On this photograph launched by the Bexar County Sheriff’s Workplace, Camila Mendoza Olmos, 19, is proven. She was final seen looking her automobile for an unidentified merchandise, in accordance with video footage from early Wednesday. Investigators consider she left the residence on foot since her automobile remained there.
Bexar County Sheriff’s Workplace
The physique has not but been formally recognized and a trigger and method of loss of life haven’t but been decided by the native medical expert, Salazar stated.
“We hope that we are able to attempt to expedite that course of to have the ability to get the group solutions,” he stated.
Salazar famous there have been some indicators of self-harm.
A firearm was positioned on the scene the place the physique was discovered, Salazar stated. A firearm belonging to a relative of Mendoza Olmos’ has been lacking, he stated. Authorities haven’t but decided if the lacking firearm is a match for the one noticed on the scene, he stated.
Salazar stated one chance investigators have been working underneath relating to the teenager’s disappearance was the “worry of self-harm,” and that there have been some “indicators of suicidal ideation” and undiagnosed indicators of melancholy.
“From what’s being described to us, it sounds prefer it was a youngster going by means of a really powerful time of their life,” he stated.
The physique was discovered shortly earlier than 5 p.m. native time on Tuesday, Salazar stated. The world had been beforehand searched, although authorities with the sheriff’s workplace and FBI have been again on Tuesday, Salazar stated. The sector has tall grass, and authorities felt there could be a profit to examine it once more, he stated.
The physique was present in clothes much like an outline of what Mendoza Olmos might have been sporting when she went lacking, Salazar stated.
“That is definitely not the end result we have been hoping for,” he stated.
Amid the seek for the teenager, authorities this week launched a dashcam video from somebody who was driving to work on Wednesday morning and handed a lady strolling by herself. Salazar stated Tuesday it’s nonetheless unclear if that individual was Mendoza Olmos.
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