Body located amid search for missing Texas teen: Sheriff

[ad_1] 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 response to the Bexar County Sheriff's Workplace. Sheriff's deputies and volunteers have been looking out across the clock for her since and there was data to counsel she was in "imminent hazard," in response to Sheriff Javier Salazar.

Whereas looking out an space Tuesday afternoon, authorities discovered a physique in a area 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 out her car for an unidentified merchandise, in response to video footage from early Wednesday. Investigators imagine 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 health worker, 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 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 chance investigators had been working underneath concerning the teenager's disappearance was the "concern of self-harm," and that there have been some "indicators of suicidal ideation" and undiagnosed indicators of despair.

"From what's being described to us, it sounds prefer it was a teenager going by means 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 realm 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 can be a profit to verify it once more, he stated.

The physique was present in clothes just like an outline of what Mendoza Olmos might have been sporting 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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