Samuel Reyes disappeared four months ago and now he has been found dead

• Samuel Reyes mysteriously disappeared in Texas and four months later he is found dead
• The young man’s mother was the one who revealed that her son’s body had been found in a vacant lot
• The San Antonio Police Department investigates the strange case of Reyes, his disappearance and death

Samuel Reyes disappeared in San Antonio, Texas, last December and he was found dead more than four months later. The disappearance and death of Reyes is shrouded in mystery for the authorities. Before disappearing, the young man had told his mother that he feared someone would attempt on his life but he didn’t tell her who.

Agents of the Missing Persons Division of the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) are responsible for investigating the case that has shocked the Hispanic community in Texas since Reyes’ mother had desperately asked, day after day, for help to find her son.

Samuel Reyes disappeared months ago and is found dead

Lanay Cohen, the mother of Samuel Reyes, shared a moving message on her social networks about how she received the news from the authorities who found her son dead. «It is with great sadness that we inform you that our desperate search … has come to a tragic end,» wrote Cohen of the discovery of Reyes’ body.

Cohen explained that on Saturday, April 24, 2021, the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office, in San Antonio, informed him that a body that was located in a rural area on Wednesday, April 21, was that of his son Samuel Reyes. The boy was reported missing officially since December 14 of last year.

Samuel Reyes was dead in a vacant lot

The 31-year-old mother of Samuel Reyes explained in her message that the forensic doctors did not tell her the official cause of the boy’s death since they first informed the SAPD to carry out the pertinent investigations in the case. The mother clarified that the «initial reports» do not yet indicate why her son died.

According to Lanay Cohen’s message, the body of her son Samuel Reyes was found in a rural property when the owners of the place made a tour of their property. The woman did not reveal the exact location of the property but said it was near Foster Road in the southwest of the San Antonio metropolitan area.

«Now we have many questions»

According to Lanay Cohen the body of her son Samuel Reyes was in a country lot that is three miles away from what was his home. «Now we have a lot of short-term answer questions, but we will always have a lot more long-term answer questions,» Cohen said of the sentiment running through her to find out what happened.

«We want to thank all the people who spent so many hours joining others to find Sam (Samuel Reyes)» the mother thanked the volunteers who joined the non-profit organization Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search & Recovery who is dedicated to searching for missing persons.

Cry privately and in peace for Samuel Reyes

“Our family is very grateful to everyone who spent hours and days with us in the hope of finding answers with a positive outcome. We all waited and prayed that we could find Sam and bring him home safe and sound, ”said Lanay Cohen in her moving message to those who helped search for Samuel Reyes.

Now, while the authorities do not solve the case, the family of Samuel Reyes asked for «time and space» to be able to «cry in private and in peace.» The boy’s mother said that «in time» there will be answers for everything. “Once again we thank everyone who helped us in our m times of dire need,” said the woman.

Samuel Reyes had enlisted in the United States Army

According to the SAPD report, consulted by MundoHispánico In Texas, on Monday, December 14, 2020, Samuel Reyes spoke by phone with his mother to express his desire to join the United States Army. In the conversation, the boy told his mother that he was also worried because “someone” could attempt against his life.

However, the boy preferred not to tell him who that person was, arguing that he did not want to worry her. The last person in his family that Samuel Reyes saw was his grandmother, whom he visited on Saturday, December 12, and proudly showed him his process to enlist in the Armed Forces.

Samuel Reyes was disoriented

Samuel Reyes’s grandmother and mother agreed in their last contacts with the boy, who had no history of erratic behavior, that the boy seemed to be «disoriented.» After the disappearance of the boy, his family filed a report with the SAPD so they could help them look for him.

In the investigation of the case, the agents of the Division of Missing Persons of the SAPD recovered images in the security cameras of a church, they do not detail in which church, in which Samuel Reyes is seen walking at the intersection of Highway 87 and Rigsby Avenue in the eastern San Antonio metropolitan area.

The last images of Samuel Reyes

The agents of the SAPD Missing Persons Division explained in their investigation that the distance from Samuel Reyes’s grandmother’s house to the church on Highway 87 and Rigsby Avenue is 12 minutes walking at a medium pace. The agents established the distance in time and not in miles or distance.

When the cameras captured Samuel Reyes, the boy was dressed in a black T-shirt, blue jeans, a black cap and wearing a gray backpack. The agents noted that in the video, like the testimony of the grandmother and the mother, the boy looked «confused and disoriented.»

«We love you Sam»

Now the agents of the Division of Missing Persons of the SAPD ask the Hispanic community of Texas that if anyone has any clue, reliable, of what may have happened to Samuel Reyes after he disappeared, contact his office at 210.207.7660 . All tracks will be kept anonymous.

The last words that Lanay Cohen dedicates, in her message, to her son Samuel Reyes are shocking and reflect the pain of a mother. «We love you Sam. Rest in peace and rest assured that we will treasure so many good memories that you gave us during our life ”, ends the mother of the missing and dead boy.

Samuel Reyes, one more case of a missing person

According to program statistics United States National System of Individuals and Unidentified Persons (NamUS), sent to MundoHispánico In Texas, on average there are 600,000 people who go missing annually and 4,400 bodies found each year cannot be identified.

The NamUS is a database to which all the police corporations in the country have access to cross data, information, statistics and details that help the authorities to solve cases such as the boy Samuel Reyes in San Antonio or the mother of the family Erica Hernández disappeared in Houston, both in Texas.

Support for victims

The University of North Texas (UNT), through its Department of Health, assists NamuUS with the forensic medical services needed by the various police corporations to gather and process the medical and biological evidence that is recovered from each missing victim or body. unidentified.

Through the Department of Justice, NamUS brings together experts in statistics, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) analysts, dentistry, anthropology and forensic pathology, as well as, most importantly, the Victims’ Family Support Division to assist them. in your pain and recovery. Samuel Reyes disappeared four months ago and is found dead.

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