Rosario Olmos spent this Christmas with out one among her best presents. Her 19-year-old daughter had gone lacking the day earlier than on the sting of San Antonio, Texas.
“I thought I would find her like other times, walking, and we would come home together,” Olmos stated in Spanish to NCS affiliate KENS.
But with the brand new yr now quick approaching, the seek for Camila Mendoza Olmos remains to be underway, with dozens of volunteers serving to all through the vacation weekend, and the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office says she could be in imminent hazard.
“I miss her. Daddy’s waiting for her at home,” her father, Alfonso Mendoza, advised NCS affiliate KSAT as extra members of the neighborhood lined up with maps and a drone to attempt to clear up the mysterious disappearance.
“We’ve had basically boots on the ground from the sheriff’s office since the day of the incident,” Sheriff Javier Salazar advised NCS’s Omar Jimenez on Monday. “Deputies and investigators working through the holidays, basically around the clock.”
Mendoza Olmos was final seen on a neighbor’s surveillance digital camera simply earlier than 7 a.m. on Christmas Eve outdoors her home. After she is seen wanting inside her automobile, the footage ends, according to the sheriff’s workplace, and there’s no clear signal of the place she went.
“As a Ring camera, it stops when it stops detecting motion,” Camila Estrella, one among Mendoza Olmos’ greatest associates, advised NCS affiliate WOAI. “That’s all we saw of her, just opening the back of her car door. … We have nothing to trace her with.”
Mendoza Olmos is seen on the video carrying a sweater and pajama shorts. Family members and investigators say they’re unsure why she was wanting contained in the automotive. Since the automobile was left behind, they believe she left the neighborhood on foot.
The path left for investigators to observe is complicated. Mendoza Olmos seems to have had her automotive keys together with her when she disappeared, though she didn’t take the automotive.
“One of the things that was very strange in this case is that the young lady left behind her cellphone,” Salazar advised NCS.
The discover of Mendoza Olmos’ disappearance was issued as a CLEAR Alert. In Texas, that requires investigators to believe that the lacking particular person “is in imminent danger of bodily injury or death” or the disappearance is “involuntary such as an abduction or kidnapping,” according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Asked why his workplace believes she may be in imminent hazard, Salazar advised NCS “there’s some information I can’t divulge … due to the sensitivity of it.”
“We consider imminent danger to be anything from self-harm all the way through someone actually kidnapping Camila, and all of those possibilities exist at present,” stated Salazar, noting that the lacking girl had beforehand spoken of suicide. “We can’t rule anything out at this point in the investigation.”
Her mom advised NCS affiliate KWEX she doesn’t assume her daughter would voluntarily go away with a stranger.
“Cami’s not like that,” Olmos stated. “Cami is very careful.”
Without a cellphone to watch her actions, investigators are on the lookout for different proof of the place Mendoza Olmos could have gone, Salazar advised NCS.
“The FBI and Homeland Security have been helping us out with intel gathering,” he stated. “Things like outbound flights, border crossings, things like that.”
As the information of Mendoza Olmos’ disappearance unfold throughout the neighborhood, the search efforts have grown extra intense.
“We’ve gone day and night, scraping our legs, not eating, just helping,” Estrella advised WOAI.
And with native investigators working “basically around the clock” to search out Camila, based on Salazar, her mom is asking for prayers that her vacation will finish with pleasure.
“Please bring her back to us, or if my girl is watching, come back. That’s what we’re asking for,” Olmos advised KWEX.
“She has a family that loves her,” Olmos added. “She has a life to live.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: Help is accessible if you happen to or somebody you recognize is fighting suicidal ideas or psychological well being issues. In the US: Call or textual content 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. Globally: The International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide have contact data for disaster facilities world wide.