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 line with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Workplace. Sheriff’s deputies and volunteers have been looking out across the clock for her since and there was info to counsel she was in “imminent hazard,” in line with Sheriff Javier Salazar.
Whereas looking out an space Tuesday afternoon, authorities discovered a physique in a subject 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.
Bexar County Sheriff’s Workplace – PHOTO: Camila Mendoza Olmos
The physique has not but been formally recognized and a trigger and method of demise haven’t but been decided by the native medical expert, Salazar stated.
“We hope that we will attempt to expedite that course of to have the ability to get the neighborhood 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.
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Salazar stated one chance investigators had been working beneath concerning 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 teen going by way of a really robust 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 had been again on Tuesday, Salazar stated. The sector has tall grass, and authorities felt there could be a profit to test it once more, he stated.
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The physique was present in clothes much like an outline of what Mendoza Olmos could have been carrying when she went lacking, Salazar stated.
“That is definitely not the end result we had 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 girl strolling by herself. Salazar stated Tuesday it’s nonetheless unclear if that individual was Mendoza Olmos.
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