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Bexar County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\nSakshi Venkatramanand<\/p>\n
Max Matza<\/p>\n
Mother of Texas teen missing since Christmas Eve remains ‘hopeful’<\/p>\n
Warning – this story contains discussion of suicide and suicidal feelings<\/p>\n
An exhaustive search for a Texas teen who vanished outside her home on Christmas Eve came to a tragic end when authorities found the girl dead. <\/p>\n
Camila Mendoza Olmos, 19, was last seen leaving her house in San Antonio for her regular morning walk. After a search that lasted for an entire week, officials discovered her body and ruled her death to be suicide. <\/p>\n
The tragic discovery came after local authorities released dashcam video that they said might show the missing woman walking near her home. <\/p>\n
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar told a news conference that he couldn’t say for certain it was her, but the person’s clothing in the video “certainly does match up with what she was wearing”.<\/p>\n
Bexar County Sheriff’s Office<\/p>\n
Salazar said authorities were looking into all potential scenarios in their search, adding that the sheriff’s department was working with the FBI on the case.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got to consider all possibilities from disappearing wilfully to the possibility of self-harm, to somebody may have taken her,” Salazar said.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Salazar said her body was discovered in a field of tall grass, along with signs of self-harm. She had been “going through a tough time”, he said, adding that there were no signs of foul play.<\/p>\n
He also noted that authorities had been looking for a relative’s firearm that had gone missing, and that a gun was found near her body.<\/p>\n
The teen’s parents had told reporters that they were holding out hope she would be found.<\/p>\n
“I miss her, come home,” her father Alfoso Mendoza told CBS Mornings, adding that he has been “praying to God” since she disappeared. “I might sound strong…but it hurts.”<\/p>\n
Her mother also told CBS, the BBC’s US media partner, on Sunday that “we are hopeful everyday”.<\/p>\n
“At times we are broken but we are staying strong because my daughter is missing and we don’t know where she is at,” she said in Spanish. <\/p>\n
Police previously released video believed to be of Mendoza Olmos recorded the day she disappeared. That footage showed a woman searching in the back of her car for an unknown item, the sheriff’s office said.<\/p>\n
Authorities had believed that she then walked somewhere on foot, leaving her car behind. They were concerned that she left without her phone, which was unusual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sakshi Venkatramanand Max Matza Mother of Texas teen missing since Christmas Eve remains ‘hopeful’ Warning – this story…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-231143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}