New video appears to show Texas teen who vanished on Christmas Eve
Authorities have released new images that may show a Texas teenager missing from outside her home on Christmas Eve.
Camila Mendoza Olmos, 19, was last seen leaving her home in San Antonio for her usual morning walk. The search, which has now lasted almost a week, has turned up few clues and his parents say they are praying for his safe return.
On Monday, local authorities released dashcam video that they say may show the missing woman walking near her home.
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said at a news conference that he couldn’t say for sure it was her, but that the person’s clothing in the video “certainly matches what she was wearing.”
Salazar said authorities are looking at all potential scenarios as part of their research, adding that the sheriff’s department is working with the FBI on the case.
“We have to consider all the possibilities, from self-disappearance to the possibility of self-harm to the possibility that someone kidnapped her,” Salazar said.
The teen’s parents told reporters they hoped she would be found soon.
“I miss her, come home,” her father Alfoso Mendoza told CBS Mornings, adding that he had been “praying to God” since her disappearance. “I may look strong…but it hurts.”
His mother also told CBS, the BBC’s US media partner, on Sunday that “we have hope every day.”
“Sometimes we are broken, but we remain strong because my daughter is missing and we don’t know where she is,” she said in Spanish.
Police previously released a video believed to be of Mendoza Olmos, recorded the day she disappeared. The footage showed a woman searching for an unknown object in the back of her car, the sheriff’s office said.
Authorities believe she then walked somewhere on foot, leaving her car behind. They were concerned that she had left without her phone, which was unusual.
