Body found amid search for missing Texas teen Camila Mendoza Olmos

A assemblage has been recovered amid the hunt for Camila Mendoza Olmos, a 19-year-old who went missing soon aft leaving her San Antonio location connected the greeting of Dec. 24, the Bexar County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday.

The assemblage has not been identified and an authoritative origin of decease has not been determined. Sheriff Javier Salazar said the assemblage was wearing covering that was "very similar" to what his bureau believes Mendoza Olmos was wearing erstwhile she was past seen.

"We anticipation that we tin expedite that process to effort to get the assemblage answers," Salazar said.

Salazar said the assemblage was recovered astir 4:45 p.m. section clip successful a tract astir 100 yards from Mendoza Olmos' home. The country had antecedently been checked, but it was searched again due to the fact that of concerns implicit gangly grass, Salazer said. He said the assemblage was recovered by combined teams from the sheriff's bureau and the FBI. 

Foul play is not suspected and determination were indications of self-harm, Salazar said, adding Mendoza Olmos had been "going done a pugnacious time."

Salazar said a firearm was recovered adjacent the assemblage and that investigators had besides been looking for a household member's firearm that had gone missing. 

Mendoza Olmos was past seen the greeting of Christmas Eve, erstwhile a neighbor's doorbell camera appears to person captured her lasting adjacent to her car conscionable earlier 7 a.m., according to the Bexar County Sheriff's Office.

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