Authorities in Bexar County are urging the community to assist in the search for a teenager who went missing on Christmas Eve. The young woman, 19-year-old Camila Mendoza Olmos, disappeared from her home in northwest Bexar County, prompting a widespread appeal for information.

According to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, Camila was last observed leaving her residence on Caspian Spring at approximately 7 a.m. on a Wednesday. This area, as reported by the Daily Mail, is identified by law enforcement as a potential “human trafficking hotspot,” adding a layer of urgency to the search efforts.

Family members have shared that Camila often ventured out for a morning walk around the time of her disappearance. Their concern grew significantly when she did not return as expected. The distressing situation led to a review of surveillance footage from that morning.

The video captured an individual, believed to be Camila, rummaging through her vehicle in search of an unknown item. This brief footage ends without providing further clues about her whereabouts, intensifying the mystery surrounding her sudden disappearance.

Surveillance footage from the morning of her disappearance captured someone believed to be Camila searching her vehicle for an unknown item shortly before the video ends.

Investigators believe she left the property on foot, as her vehicle was left behind at the residence. She is thought to have only her car keys and potentially her driver’s license in her possession.

Police issued a Clear Alert – a Texas statewide alert that helps track down missing and possibly at-risk adults – shortly after Camila’s disappearance.

Camila’s mother, Rosario Olmos, shared the distressing timeline of the morning her daughter vanished, as reported by KENS5.

The mother and daughter had been sharing a bed on Wednesday morning, when Rosario felt Camila get up. When Rosario fully awoke roughly an hour and a half later, Camila was nowhere to be found.

Suspicion grew when Rosario discovered her daughter’s cell phone left behind on the bed, powered off. Camila’s vehicle remained parked at the residence. 

“I called her cell phone, but the cell phone was there on the bed, and it was turned off,” Rosario said.

“I put it to charge and went out to look for her. I thought I would find her like other times, walking, and we would come home together.”

The situation escalated after Rosario contacted both Camila’s father and her boyfriend, discovering that neither had heard from her. Rosario then she reached out to the sheriff’s office to file a missing person report.

Friends and family of the missing 19-year-old combed the neighborhoods near the home, but their efforts resulted in no leads.

Rosario emphasized that this disappearance is entirely out of character for her daughter and that the mother and daughter stay in close contact, knowing about each other’s whereabouts.

Rosario made an emotional and public appeal for spiritual support. 

“I only ask God to please bring her back home,” she said. “Bring her back to me.”

 “Pray, pray, pray and ask from the heart, to God and the angels, and the Virgin Mary, whoever you believe in, to please from my daughter to return.”

Camila’s aunt, Nancy Olmos, urged people to pray and distribute Camila’s information in an online plea, Daily Mail reported.

“Please help me and my family continue to share this,” Nancy wrote. ‘We are still searching for my sweet angel, my niece, Camila Mendoza Olmos, 19 years old.”

Camila is described as standing 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighing approximately 110 pounds. She was last seen wearing a baby blue and black hoodie, baby blue pajama bottoms, and white shoes.

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office is encouraging anyone who may have seen Camila Olmos or who has information regarding her current location to contact them at (210) 335-6000 or via email at missingpersons@bexar.org.

[Feature Photo: Camila Mendoza Olmos/Bexar County SO]