Authorities have released new footage that may show a Texas teen who vanished outside her home on Christmas Eve. <\/p>\n
Camila Mendoza Olmos, 19, was last seen leaving her house in San Antonio for her regular morning walk. The search, now going on for nearly a week, has turned up few clues and her parents say they are praying for her safe return.<\/p>\n
On Monday, local authorities released dashcam video that they said might show the missing woman walking near her home. <\/p>\n
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar told a news conference that he couldn’t say for certain it was her, but the person’s clothing in the video “certainly does match up with what she was wearing”.<\/p>\n
Salazar said authorities were looking into all potential scenarios in their search, adding that the sheriff’s department was working with the FBI on the case.<\/p>\n
“We’ve got to consider all possibilities from disappearing wilfully to the possibility of self-harm, to somebody may have taken her,” Salazar said.<\/p>\n
The teen’s parents have told reporters that they are holding out hope she will be found soon.<\/p>\n
“I miss her, come home,” her father Alfoso Mendoza told CBS Mornings, adding that he has been “praying to God” since she disappeared. “I might sound strong…but it hurts.”<\/p>\n
Her mother also told CBS, the BBC’s US media partner, on Sunday that “we are hopeful everyday”.<\/p>\n
“At times we are broken but we are staying strong because my daughter is missing and we don’t know where she is at,” she said in Spanish. <\/p>\n
Police previously released video believed to be of Mendoza Olmos recorded the day she disappeared. That footage showed a woman searching in the back of her car for an unknown item, the sheriff’s office said.<\/p>\n
Authorities believe she then walked somewhere on foot, leaving her car behind. They were concerned that she left without her phone, which was unusual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have released new footage that may show a Texas teen who vanished outside her home on Christmas…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":480815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[50,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-480814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115810436682528288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}