Authorities are still searching for a missing 19-year-old teen from Bexar County, Texas, who was last seen on Christmas Eve.
Rosario Olmos reported that her daughter, Camila Mendoza Olmos, had been missing since Mendoza Olmos left her home on the morning of December 24. She was last seen on a neighbor’s security camera around 7 a.m. in the 11000 block of Caspian Spring near San Antonio, CBS affiliate KENS5 reported.
Olmos told the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office that her daughter often went for her morning walks and she became concerned when “Camila didn’t come back within a reasonable time,” ABC News reported. Mendoza Olmos did not have his cellphone with him.
“I called her on her cell phone, but it was on the bed and it was off,” Olmos told KENS5. “I charged it up and went out to look for her. I figured I’d find her like I did every other time, walk, and we’d go home together.”
Video footage from that morning shows a person believed to be Mendoza Olmos searching for an unknown object in her car before the video ends, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators believe she left the area on foot because her car was still inside her home.
Mendoza Olmos is 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 110 pounds, has brown hair and eyes and was last seen wearing a blue and black hoodie, light blue pajama pants and white shoes. He is believed to be carrying only his car keys and possibly his driver’s license.
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar told ABC News that deputies and volunteers have been searching around the clock because they believe Olmos is in “imminent danger.”
Multiple agencies are assisting in the investigation, including the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, which is monitoring border crossings and international travel. San Antonio is approximately 160 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.
“We definitely don’t want to miss anything,” Salazar told ABC News. “The ground search is somewhat limited to a few square miles. We also don’t rule out the possibility that this case could take us beyond the borders of the continental United States.”
Salazar said U.S. citizen Mendoza Olmos was not in ICE custody, adding that authorities were also investigating kidnapping, human trafficking and whether Mendoza Olmos left voluntarily.
Mendoza Olmos had recently gone through a breakup, but Salazar said the breakup was mutual and authorities found no signs of foul play. People close to Mendoza Olmos are cooperating with the investigation.
The Sheriff’s Office asks anyone with information about the whereabouts of Mendoza Olmos to call the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office at (210) 335-6000 or contact the Bexar County Missing Persons Unit at missingpersons@bexar.org.
