Texas officers confirmed Wednesday that they discovered the physique of Camila Mendoza Olmos, a 19-year-old who has been lacking since Christmas Eve, in a discipline by her house.
The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Workplace recognized the physique as Olmos, in line with a launch from the Bexar County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Olmos’ mom, Nancy, instructed police she grew anxious when her daughter did not return to her San Antonio space house after her regular early morning stroll.
The household discovered her cellphone turned off in her bed room, in line with her mom.
Safety digital camera video confirmed an individual matching Olmos’ wanting inside her automotive for an unidentified merchandise earlier than the clip from the neighbor’s house digital camera ended. One other video supplied by somebody’s sprint digital camera appeared to point out Olmos strolling by herself on the facet of a highway, which authorities stated gave them a route of the place she might have gone.
Finally, authorities discovered Olmos’ physique roughly 100 yards from her house on a follow-up search of the realm. She was beforehand obscured by brush, however Bexar County Sheriff Javiar Salazar credited the assistance of a “small military” of FBI brokers to scour the realm a second time.
The medical expert decided the reason for demise to be a gunshot wound to the top, with the way of demise dominated a suicide.
Salazar beforehand stated that investigators had been conscious that Olmos had “suicidal ideations” previously in addition to points with melancholy. However regulation enforcement was dedicated to exploring all prospects in her disappearance.
“We have to think about all prospects, from disappearing willfully, to the opportunity of self-harm, to anyone might have taken her,” Salazar stated.
Alfonso Mendoza, Olmos’ father, beforehand instructed NBC affiliate WOAI in San Antonio that he was “devastated” over this daughter’s disappearance however was making an attempt to lean on his religion.
“I broke down a pair instances,” Mendoza stated. “I nonetheless break after I bought house, however I do know it is the prayers are holding me down.”
Should you or somebody you realize is in disaster, name or textual content 988 or go to 988lifeline.org to succeed in the Suicide & Disaster Lifeline. It’s also possible to name the community, beforehand referred to as the Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline, at 800-273-8255 or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/assets.
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