A body has been found in search for a San Antonio teen who vanished while out for a walk on Christmas Eve

Camila Mendoza Olmos, 19, was last seen on a neighbor’s surveillance camera leaving her neighborhood just before 7am Wednesday

The unexplained disappearance of the college student prompted a massive search, but she has not been seen since

Bexar County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday, that a body, along with a firearm, had been found in a field ‘very close to Camila’s home’

The body which had been there 5 to six days was found with a gun nearby, matching a model reported missing from Olmos’ home

Medical Examiner has yet to confirm the identity of the remains, as well as the cause and manner of death – Sheriff Javiar Salazar

Salazar said authorities are not suspecting foul play at this time and are considering self-harm as a possibility

Teen allegedly, had been dealing with depression, ‘undercurrents of suicidal ideation,’ and self-harm in the months prior to her disappearance 

A body has been found in the frantic search for Camila Mendoza Olmos, [photo]. The 19-year-old vanished mysteriously from her home in San Antonio, Texas, on Christmas Eve. She has not been since, despite a massive search effort

A body has been found in the frantic search for a Texas teen who mysteriously vanished from her San Antonio home on Christmas Eve.
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday, that a body, along with a firearm, had been found in a field ‘very close to Camila’s home.’. The gun found in the field was a 9mm Luger pistol, reportedly, is the same make as the one that went missing from the family’s home.
The body was discovered around 4:45pm near the Burning Bush Landscaping Company at Bent Cyn and FM 1560, just a few hundred yards from her home in an area of tall grass.
Sheriff’s deputies and FBI agents found the body during a renewed search of the field, which they had decided to re-comb due to the dense brush.  The body found Tuesday was noted to have been in the field for about five or six days, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar told reporters.
However, the medical examiner has yet to confirm the identity of the remains, as well as the cause and manner of death, Sheriff Salazar said, adding ‘But we hope to expedite that process to get the community answers.’
He added that he hopes the medical examiner will release answers regarding the identity within the next day or two. 

Camila Mendoza Olmos was last seen on a neighbor’s surveillance camera leaving her San Antonio neighborhood just before 7am Wednesday, where footage captured her rummaging through her car

Camila Mendoza Olmos, a 19-year-old college student, was last seen on a neighbor’s surveillance camera leaving her San Antonio neighborhood just before 7am Wednesday, December 24. She has not been seen since.
The week-long search continued as authorities warned she could be in ‘imminent danger.’
She vanished from an area in northwest Bexar County, known by authorities as a human-trafficking corridor, prompting initial fears were that she may have been kidnapped or fallen victim to human trafficking.
Other explanations considered include that she left of her own accord. However, the ‘highly unusual’ fact that Camila who went everywhere with her phone, left the device at home when she left home that morning, has raised concerns.

On Tuesday, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said that a body, along with a firearm, had been found in a field ‘very close to Camila’s home’. Sheriff Salazar disclosed that they are waiting for the ME’s office will confirm if the find is tied to missing teen Mendoza Olmos [photo] 

As for the firearm, Salazar confirmed that authorities are not suspecting foul play at this time and are considering self-harm as a possibility, according to the outlet. 
‘We developed some information that there may have been some suicidal ideations on Camila’s part,’ the sheriff said.
‘Undiagnosed, as far as we can tell,’ he added. ‘It sounds like this was a young person going through a very tough time in her life, going through some emotional issues.’
The discovery comes one week after the college student vanished from her mother’s driveway on Christmas Eve morning, where she had been living while attending nearby Northwest Vista College with hopes of becoming an orthodontist.

Despite the recovery of a firearm where the body was found, Sheriff Javier Salazar confirmed that authorities are not suspecting foul play at this time and are considering self-harm as a possibility 

Camila Mendoza Olmos, [photo], was studying to become an orthodontist at Northwest Vista College, but had recently switched her major to business, according to her mother. Rosario said her daughter was struggling with her grades before deciding to make the change in her major

Surveillance footage recorded in the neighborhood show an unidentified person cops suspect was Mendoza Olmos near her car with the lights on, wearing only a hoodie and pajama shorts. searching her car about 7am the morning she left home.
In the footage Olmos is seen searching inside the car for an unidentified item before the video abruptly ends.
Police believe she took only her car keys, and possibly her driver’s license, when she left home. Her car was still parked at home when she disappeared, leading authorities to believe she left the area on foot.
She was never seen again.   

Camila’s car was still parked at home. Cops believe she left the area on foot. She normally goes for morning walks but always takes her phone her family said, insisting it was out of character for her to leave without telling them where she was going 

The Bexar County Sherrif’s office released dashboard camera footage on Monday that, appeared to show someone matching Camila’s description walking alone northbound on Wildhorse Parkway, just a few blocks from her home

Olmos’s family said she normally goes for morning walks but always takes her phone, insisting it was out of character for her to leave without telling them where she was going. 
Rosario Olmos said she and her daughter had been sleeping together that morning. Camila was first to rise, but an hour and a half later when she got out of bed, there were no signs of her daughter, except for her car. 
‘I called her cell phone, but the cell phone was there on the bed. It was turned off,’ her mother said.
‘I put it to charge and went out to look for her,’ she added.
‘I thought I would find her like other times – walking – and we would come home together.’ 
On Sunday, Sheriff Salazar revealed that authorities were ‘not ruling out that this case may take us outside the borders of the continental United States.’

Sheriff Javier Salazar earlier said that they were ‘not ruling out that this case may take us outside the borders of the continental United States.’ He has now confirmed that authorities are not suspecting foul play at this time and are considering self-harm as a possibility  

While withholding some specifics of the case, Salazar said the evidence collected so far suggested the teenage girl was in ‘imminent danger.’ 
He also revealed that Olmos had recently experienced a romantic breakup, but said it was amicable and that everyone close to her was cooperating with the investigation. 
Salazar made it a personal mission to ensure she had not been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, noting it was a ‘concern’ that had crossed his mind, despite Olmos being a US citizen.   
Beyond that, investigators said all possibilities remained on the table, including the chance she was kidnapped or fell victim to human trafficking. 

Her disappearance prompted urgent pleas from her family, with authorities recognizing the area she vanished from as a human-trafficking corridor. FBI and DHS assisted with the search, including monitoring border crossings and international travel.

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security immediately assisted with the desperate search, including monitoring border crossings and international travel. 
Meanwhile, the sheriff’s office deployed drone teams, search dogs and cadets to continue scouring the area around Olmos’s suburb. 
On Tuesday morning, searchers continued scouring local fields and ditches for the teen while her family clung to hope, even while acknowledging that the chances of finding her alive was growing slimmer each day. 
‘I’m going to tell you something,’ her mother, Rosario told the Daily Mail Monday morning. ‘Giving up is not an option.’ 

The missing teen’s mother said the two were close and often shared a bed despite each having their own room in their spacious San Antonio home, including on the night before she walked out, never to be seen again  

The night before she went missing, Olmos, who had completed her fall semester in mid-December, was at home cooking and unwinding with her mother.
The two were close, often sharing a bed despite each having their own room in their spacious two-story brick home. 
Olmos’s mother said she awoke early on Christmas Eve wearing baby blue pajama shorts, a black North Face hoodie, and white sneakers. The neighbor’s camera later captured her rummaging through her car in that same outfit. 
Then, as if in a flash, her image disappeared from the video footage, leaving no clue where she went. 
That changed on Monday, when Salazar released new evidence: dashboard camera footage that, while blurry, appeared to show someone matching her description walking alone northbound on Wildhorse Parkway, just a few blocks from her home.
Salazar stated that authorities were considering all possibilities, including suicide, and that she had been dealing with depression, ‘undercurrents of suicidal ideation,’ and self-harm in the months prior to her disappearance. 
Olmos and her boyfriend, Nathan Gonzales, broke up in the fall when he moved out of town for college.
‘She had lost weight, her grades were down and she was feeling low from the break-up with the boyfriend,’ her father, Alfonso Mendoza, a trucker who lives a block from his ex-wife, said. He is strongly opposed to suggestions that his daughter would take her own life.
‘She would never do something like that her herself, to us.
‘She just wouldn’t. Not ever.’

Rosario Olmos [photo], and her daughter had been sleeping together that morning. Camila was first to rise. When she got up about an hour and a half later, but there were no signs of her daughter

Rosario Olmos acknowledged that school and grades had been stressing her daughter out, she disputed that she was facing serious mental health challenges 

While the teen’s mother Rosario acknowledged that school and grades had been stressing her daughter out, Rosario Olmos disputes that she was facing serious mental health challenges. 
‘People talk. But they don’t know my daughter like I do,’ she said, noting that Cami’s recent breakup was mutual and respectful.
‘It ended on good terms, in a lovely way,’ she said, and ‘wasn’t something she was depressed about.’ Nathan had been actively helping in the search for his ex.
Additional extended family members from California and Mexico rushed to Rosario’s side after learning of Camila’s disappearance. 

Additional extended family members from California and Mexico rushed to the grieving mother in the search for her daughter in San Antonio, Texas

On Tuesday morning, searchers continued scouring local fields and ditches for the teen while her family clung to hope. Apart from assistance from feds, the sheriff’s office deployed drone teams, search dogs and cadets

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a missing 17-year-old Angelique Johnson was last seen on Christmas Day in the 130 block of Exeter Place, near Potranco Road in San Antonio

Olmos was one of three teens in Bexar County, Texas reported missing in under a week.
Another, 14-year-old Sofia Peters-Cobos, was recovered safely.
The third, 17-year-old Angelique Johnson, has been missing since Christmas Day. She is 5 feet, 10 inches tall and has brown eyes and brown hair. She is believed to still have her cell phone, but her whereabouts are currently unknown.
Persons with information regarding Johnson’s whereabouts, have been advised to call the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office at (210) 335-6000 or email the BCSO Missing Persons Unit at missingpersons@bexar.org.