The urgent search for Camila Mendoza Olmos is intensifying after she disappeared Christmas Eve.
BEXAR COUNTY, Texas — The search is continuing for a missing 19-year-old woman six days after her family says she disappeared on Christmas Eve.
Camila Mendoza Olmos was last seen the morning of Dec. 24 outside of her home in the Wildhorse subdivision in northwest Bexar County. A neighbor’s surveillance video showed her standing next to her car outside her home on Caspian Spring. The footage does not show what happened afterward. Camila was gone, but her car remained at the location.
Friends, family and community members have come together to search for her for the last several days. Volunteers say they are focused on an approximately 8-square-mile radius around Camila’s home. Searchers are navigating challenging terrain and potentially dangerous conditions, including wildlife.
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said in a news conference that his department obtained a dashcam video from within the Wildhorse subdivision, about two blocks from her home. He said that she appears to be walking by herself.
“If this is indeed her, I believe we have a good direction of flight,” Sheriff Salazar said. “It looks like she came out on Wildhorse Parkway and was heading west when a motorist came out and was able to capture the video.”
The video also confirms the description given by her family of what she was last wearing, a baby blue and black hoodie, baby blue pajama bottoms and white shoes.
Sheriff Salazar is urging anyone who may have video, either surveillance video or dash cam video, to please reach out of the sheriff’s office right away.
He said they had received information that Olmos had suicidal thoughts and depression issues in the past, but authorities are considering all possibilities.
“We’ve got to consider all possibilities from disappearing willfully to the possiblity of self harm, to somebody may have taken her,” Sheriff Salazar said.
Also on Monday, KENS 5 learned the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security were involved in the investigation into her disappearance.