A Texas teenager vanished from her home early Christmas Eve morning — taking nothing but her car keys — as loved ones believed she was going on her regular walk.
Camila Mendoza Olmos, 19, was last seen outside her San Antonio home just before 7 a.m. on Wednesday, the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office announced later that day.
Olmos, wearing baby blue pajama shorts, a black hoodie and white shoes, was captured on video outside the house rummaging through her car before the footage cut off, officials said.
She never returned home and her car remained at the house. Olmos is believed to have left on foot with only her car keys and possibly her driver’s license, the sheriff’s office revealed.
The teen had been sleeping in the same bed with her mother, Rosario Olmos, the morning she disappeared.
The elder Olmos felt her daughter get out of bed, but she remained there for 90 minutes before going to check on the teen, she told KENS5.
After finding her house void of the teen, the worried mother called her daughter’s phone, only to find the device turned off in the bedroom.
Rosario Olmos searched around the neighborhood for her daughter, believing she was out on her regular walk, but couldn’t find the teen strolling in the area.
“I thought I would find her like other times, walking, and we would come home together,” the worried mother told the outlet.
Rosario Olmos made calls to her daughter’s boyfriend and father, who both claimed they hadn’t seen or heard from the teen.
A missing persons report was filed with the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office and a CLEAR Alert was issued for the teen.
Olmos’ CLEAR (Coordinated Law Enforcement Adult Rescue) Alert lists the young adult as missing and “possibly endangered.”
“I only ask God to please bring her back home,” Rosario Olmos told KENS5. “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 for my daughter to return,” she pleaded.
Olmos’ friends and family said it was normal for her to go on walks and they would regularly talk on the phone during her strolls.
“We’ll always be on the phone together when she walks,” Olmos’ friend, Camila Estrella, told KSAT.
“It’s been very out of the normal,” her friend Isabela said. “It’s not like her. She’s always been the one to always stalk on us and like, ‘why aren’t you doing this?’ [She would] make sure that her phone’s always charged.”
Over 100 people, including relatives 17 hours away, rushed to the San Antonio suburb to search for the missing teen since Christmas Eve, but have come up empty-handed.
“It’s been real hard,” the teen’s dad, Alfonso Mendoza, told the outlet.
“Please come home,” he said. “Daddy’s missing you.”
Olmos’ brother, Carlos Mendoza, flew back home after learning of her disappearance.
“We’ve been searching on foot within a three-mile radius,” Carlos Mendoza said. “I want her to come back.
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