{"id":481435,"date":"2025-12-31T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/481435\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T03:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:00:11","slug":"body-found-during-search-for-missing-19-year-old-camila-mendoza-olmos-bexar-county-sheriff-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/481435\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found during search for missing 19-year-old Camila Mendoza Olmos, Bexar County sheriff says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>BEXAR COUNTY, Texas<\/strong> \u2013 A body was found during the search for missing 19-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/topic\/Camila_Mendoza_Olmos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/topic\/Camila_Mendoza_Olmos\/\">Camila Mendoza Olmos<\/a>, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Salazar said it is too early to tell if the body is Mendoza Olmos, who was last seen on the morning of Dec. 24 outside her family home in the 11000 block of Caspian Spring in northwest Bexar County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Around 4:45 p.m. Tuesday, a joint team consisting of FBI and Bexar County Sheriff\u2019s Office members went back to a previously searched area when they found the body in tall grass, Salazar said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>Watch the full Tuesday news conference below:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The body was found 10 minutes into the search, at the Burnin\u2019 Bush landscaping company a few hundred yards from Mendoza Olmos\u2019 residence. According to Salazar, a firearm was also found near the body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Salazar said investigators were looking for a family member\u2019s missing firearm. It\u2019s still unclear if the recovered weapon is the same one reported missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The sheriff said investigators don\u2019t suspect foul play but believe self-harm may be a \u201cpossibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The clothing on the body matched one of the descriptions of Mendoza Olmos\u2019 clothing when she went missing, Salazar said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>&gt;&gt; <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/29\/what-we-know-about-the-disappearance-of-camila-mendoza-olmos-last-seen-in-northwest-bexar-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>What we know about the disappearance of Camila Mendoza Olmos, last seen in northwest Bexar County<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cDon\u2019t take anything for granted &#8230; sometimes when everything seems to be OK &#8230; they are coming to peace with the fact they are ending their life. &#8230; Reach out and get help,\u201d Salazar said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Bexar County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office will confirm identification of the body, along with the cause and manner of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>If you or <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/help-someone-else\/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=MC_Vibrant_Phase2_Traffic_Search_GO_PG&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjw6cKiBhD5ARIsAKXUdyY-j6-mJn_RcIfkhNXwi0Ze9_SH42-ZZ0wjNdVkaWSepYLWP4S0ICgaAvEXEALw_wcB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/help-someone-else\/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=mc_vibrant_phase2_traffic_search_go_pg&amp;gclid=cj0kcqjw6ckibhd5arisakxudyy-j6-mjn_rcifkhnxwi0ze9_sh42-zz0wjndvkawsepylwp4s0icgaavexealw_wcb\"><b>someone you know<\/b><\/a><b> is struggling with mental health or thoughts of suicide, call 988 or text TALK to 741-741.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>You can also reach out to the <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/afsp.org\/chapter\/south-texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/afsp.org\/chapter\/south-texas\"><b>American Foundation for Suicide Prevention<\/b><\/a><b> (AFSP) or the <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nami-sat.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nami-sat.org\/\"><b>National Alliance of Mental Illness<\/b><\/a><b> (NAMI) at 210-223-7233 (SAFE) or 800-316-9241. You can also text NAMI to 741-741.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEXAR COUNTY, Texas \u2013 A body was found during the search for missing 19-year-old Camila Mendoza Olmos, Bexar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":481436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24545,7288,217961,51,100681,5811,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-481435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bcso","9":"tag-bexar-county","10":"tag-camila-mendoza-olmos","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-javier-salazar","13":"tag-missing","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115811950455943064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481435","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=481435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}