{"id":489794,"date":"2026-01-03T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489794\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T16:23:09","slug":"community-to-honor-the-life-of-19-year-old-camila-mendoza-olmos-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489794\/","title":{"rendered":"Community to honor the life of 19-year-old Camila Mendoza Olmos on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The community is gathering this weekend to celebrate the life of 19-year-old Camila Mendoza Olmos.<\/p>\n

The search for Camila, who was last seen alive on Christmas Eve, ended tragically with the discovery of her remains this week<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Youth Peace and Justice Foundation will hold a memorial and celebration of life on Saturday at Wildhorse Sports Park located at 9779 Mustang Farm.<\/p>\n

From 5 to 8 p.m. the community gathering and prayer will be held as well as a balloon release at 6 p.m. <\/p>\n

RELATED: Camila Mendoza Olmos honored with national gun violence memorial<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Foundation is announcing a collaborative fundraising effort organized in direct partnership with Camila\u2019s father to oversee funeral and related expenses. <\/p>\n

In addition, the Foundation will permanently honor Camila through its national Trees for Peace Youth Gun Violence Memorial<\/a>. A memorial tree will be planted in her name within the Davy Crockett National Forest in Texas.<\/p>\n

You can donate directly to the Camila Olmos Memorial Fund here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The community is gathering this weekend to celebrate the life of 19-year-old Camila Mendoza Olmos.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":489795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-489794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489794","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=489794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}