Authorities have released new footage that may show a Texas teenager who went missing near her home on Christmas Eve.
Camila Mendoza Olmos, 19, was last seen leaving her home in San Antonio for a routine morning walk. The search, which has been going on for nearly a week, has yielded no clues and her parents say they are praying for her safe return.
On Monday, local authorities released dashcam video that they say may show the missing woman walking near her home.
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said at a news conference that he couldn't say for sure it was her, but the clothing of the person in the video “certainly matches what she was wearing.”
Salazar said authorities are looking at all potential search scenarios, adding that the sheriff's department is working with the FBI on the case.
“We have to look at all possibilities, from intentional disappearance to the possibility of self-harm or that someone could have kidnapped her,” Salazar said.
The teenager's parents told reporters they hope she will be found soon.
“I miss her, come home,” her father Alfoso Mendoza told CBS Mornings, adding that he has been “praying to God” since she disappeared. “I may sound strong… but it hurts.”
Her mother also told CBS, the BBC's US media partner, on Sunday that “we are hopeful every day.”
“Sometimes we are broken, but we remain strong because my daughter is missing and we don't know where she is,” she said in Spanish.
Police previously released a video purportedly of Mendoza Olmos recorded the day she disappeared. The footage shows the woman searching the back seat of her car for an unknown object, the sheriff's office said.
Authorities believe she then walked somewhere, leaving her car behind. They were concerned that she had left without her phone, which was unusual.
