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 keeping with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Workplace. Sheriff’s deputies and volunteers have been looking across the clock for her since and there was data to counsel she was in “imminent hazard,” in keeping with Sheriff Javier Salazar.
Whereas looking an space Tuesday afternoon, authorities discovered a physique in a discipline roughly 100 yards from Mendoza Olmos’ residence, 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 car for an unidentified merchandise, in keeping with video footage from early Wednesday. Investigators consider she left the residence on foot since her car remained there.
Bexar County Sheriff’s Workplace
The physique has not but been formally recognized and a trigger and method of dying 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 group solutions,” he stated.
Salazar famous there have been some indicators of self-harm.
A firearm was situated 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 risk investigators had been working below 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 teen going via 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 sphere has tall grass, and authorities felt there could be a profit to test it once more, he stated.
The physique was present in clothes just like an outline of what Mendoza Olmos could have been carrying when she went lacking, Salazar stated.
“That is actually not the 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 lady strolling by herself. Salazar stated Tuesday it’s nonetheless unclear if that individual was Mendoza Olmos.
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