14-year-old Texas girl disappears, becoming third missing Bexar County teen in just a week
A 14-year-old Texas girl vanished from her home on Monday — just days after missing teen Camila Mendoza Olmos disappeared near her home in the same city.
Sofia Gabriela Peters-Cobos, 14, hasn’t been seen since Monday evening when she left her home on Landon Ridge and Potranco Road in San Antonio around 7 p.m., the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office said.
She is now the third Bexar County teen reported missing within a week.
On Christmas Eve, Olmos, 19, disappeared while taking an early morning walk. She was last seen close to her San Antonio home around 7 a.m.
A day later, on Christmas Day, the sheriff’s office also asked the public for help locating 17-year-old Angelique Johnson, who was last seen on Potranco Road.
Johnson is believed to have her phone on her, police said.
But Olmos’ phone was found dead on a bed in her home, which her mother said was “highly unusual” for the teen girl.
Investigators have warned she could be in “imminent danger,” and haven’t ruled out that she could be across the US border as part of a trafficking situation.
“That’s why we’re working basically around the clock on this case,” Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar previously told CBS News.
Olmos had also recently gone through a break-up, and police haven’t ruled out the possibility that she left home on her own volition.
“She could have just wanted to get away, gather her thoughts. There is a concern regarding self-harm, so that could be what’s going on here,” the sheriff told Cuomo. “She may have gone and harmed herself, or she could have been abducted.”
“At this point, we’re looking at that whole spectrum of possibilities until such time as some prevailing evidence emerges that leads us one way or the other,” he added.
On Monday, police released footage that appeared to show Olmos walking near her home in a North Face jacket and pajamas on the morning she went missing.
Olmos’ home is about a 30-minute drive from the road where the other two teens vanished.
