The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in locating a missing teenager from Texas who disappeared from her home in northwest Bexar County on Christmas Eve.
Authorities have identified the missing individual as 19-year-old Camila Mendoza Olmos. She was last observed leaving her home on the 11000 block of Caspian Spring just before 7 a.m. on Wednesday.
According to a report by the Daily Mail, the location from which she disappeared is noted by law enforcement as a “human trafficking hotspot.”
Family members mentioned that Camila usually takes a morning walk around this time. They grew concerned when she did not return home as expected.
Security camera footage from the day she went missing shows a person believed to be Camila looking through her vehicle for something unspecified, shortly before the video concludes.
Investigators suspect she departed on foot, as her car was left at the residence. It is believed she took only her car keys and possibly her driver’s license with her.
Police issued a Clear Alert – a Texas statewide alert that helps track down missing and possibly at-risk adults – shortly after Camila’s disappearance.
Camila’s mother, Rosario Olmos, shared the distressing timeline of the morning her daughter vanished, as reported by KENS5.
The mother and daughter had been sharing a bed on Wednesday morning, when Rosario felt Camila get up. When Rosario fully awoke roughly an hour and a half later, Camila was nowhere to be found.
Suspicion grew when Rosario discovered her daughter’s cell phone left behind on the bed, powered off. Camila’s vehicle remained parked at the residence.
“I called her cell phone, but the cell phone was there on the bed, and it was turned off,” Rosario said.
“I put it to charge and went out to look for her. I thought I would find her like other times, walking, and we would come home together.”
The situation escalated after Rosario contacted both Camila’s father and her boyfriend, discovering that neither had heard from her. Rosario then she reached out to the sheriff’s office to file a missing person report.
Friends and family of the missing 19-year-old combed the neighborhoods near the home, but their efforts resulted in no leads.
Rosario emphasized that this disappearance is entirely out of character for her daughter and that the mother and daughter stay in close contact, knowing about each other’s whereabouts.
Rosario made an emotional and public appeal for spiritual support.
“I only ask God to please bring her back home,” she said. “Bring her back to me.”
“Pray, pray, pray and ask from the heart, to God and the angels, and the Virgin Mary, whoever you believe in, to please from my daughter to return.”
Camila’s aunt, Nancy Olmos, urged people to pray and distribute Camila’s information in an online plea, Daily Mail reported.
“Please help me and my family continue to share this,” Nancy wrote. ‘We are still searching for my sweet angel, my niece, Camila Mendoza Olmos, 19 years old.”
Camila is described as standing 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighing approximately 110 pounds. She was last seen wearing a baby blue and black hoodie, baby blue pajama bottoms, and white shoes.
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office is encouraging anyone who may have seen Camila Olmos or who has information regarding her current location to contact them at (210) 335-6000 or via email at missingpersons@bexar.org.
[Feature Photo: Camila Mendoza Olmos/Bexar County SO]
