An investigation is being conducted after the authorities found a body that coincide with the description of a 13 -year -old missing child, Los Angeles police said.
Oscar Omar Hernández, from the San Fernando Valley, was reported by his missing family on Sunday after “he could not return home to visit an acquaintance in Lancaster,” said Lapd captain Scot Williams in a statement.
The Robo-Homicide Division of the Los Angeles Police Department assumed leadership on Tuesday in the investigation, which subsequently led them to an “area of interest” in the city of Oxnard, west of Los Angeles, said Williams.
“In collaboration with our partners in the FBI, a coordinated search for that area took place,” said Williams. “During the search, a body was discovered that coincides with the description of the missing teenager.”
The identity of the deceased has not been officially confirmed, and the cause of death remains undetermined, police said.
Detectives are chasing ducts to “determine the cause of death and identify anyone who can participate or possess relevant information for this research,” said Williams.
Families and friends have a vigil for Oscar Omar Hernández in Los Angeles, on April 3, 2025.
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LapD’s deputy director Alan Hamilton, told reporters at the scene in Oxnard on Wednesday that they were working to establish a timeline in the case.
“The family was aware of its destination, and I will leave it as part of the investigation,” he said.
Police did not say what led them to Oxnard.
“All we can say is that our investigation led us to this point here … in the unbalanced area of Ventura County,” Hamilton said.
Oscar’s family and friends paid tribute to the adolescent on Thursday at the site where the body was found next to an Oxnard road.
“He didn’t need to be treated as an animal. That was my son,” his mother, Gladys Bautista, shouted in Spanish, Los Angeles Station of ABC News’ reported.
The loved ones also gathered outside their home in the North Hollywood area, where friends remembered him as the “most pleasant person” who “was always in a good heart” and a great dancer.
The police did not have an update on the investigation on Friday.
“Anyone who thinks that they are going to get out with any type of dirty game or disastrous activity or criminal activity, will learn that the Los Angeles Police Department will not stop at anything to take people to justice,” Hamilton said on the scene on Wednesday.
