The sun rose over San Antonio on Christmas Eve morning with the gentle warmth that feels like a blessing. Most houses on Caspian Spring Drive were quiet. Some families were still asleep. Some had begun to bustle about with last-minute holiday plans. But for nineteen-year-old Camila Mendoza Olmos, it was an ordinary morning — a morning she often began the same way. She liked to take a walk. Her family knew it. Her neighbors knew it. And on this particular December 24, just before 7:00 a.m., she stepped outside like she had done countless times before. A surveillance camera on...
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