Anna Lazarus Caplan
PeopleThu, 07 Mar 2024 01:15 UTC
© Bee County Sheriff's OfficeCaleb Harris missing Texas A& M student
Caleb Harris was last seen near his apartment complex in the 1900 block of Ennis Joslin Road, near the campus of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where he is a second-year student,
according to Corpus Christi Police Department and
ABC affiliate KIII-TV.
Harris took his dog outside his off-campus apartment at around 2:45 a.m. local time, a Snapchat ping recorded, per KIII. The student left behind his ID and car keys, his father told the station on Tuesday:
"By 3 o'clock his phone was dead,. He was totally gone. He doesn't have his wallet. He doesn't have any identification on him."
By Wednesday, Caleb's friends joined local authorities in a search for the New Braunfels native.
A&M-CC student Logan Johnson told KVII about the search:
"As soon as I found out about it, I got all of my work out of the way and set aside all of yesterday to spread the word as much as I can, basically, through this entire zip code."
On Thursday, additional agencies including the
U.S. Coast Guard, Texas Search and Rescue, and local dive teams joined the effort to find Harris.CCPD Senior Officer Antonio Contreras
told NBC affiliate KRIS-TV on Thursday:
"We're using the cadets that we have currently in the academy to physically get their boots on the ground and canvas the adjacent fields, the drainage ditches, areas like that. Right now as of early afternoon, we don't have any updates, but we're really working hard to find him."
Harris's father is among those who are concerned about Caleb's sudden disappearance. Randy Harris told KIII:
"There's just nothing there that would cause us to believe he was in any danger or leaving. He had actually ordered in his food for the next day for school."
Harris, who is about 5 foot 11 inches tall and 180 pounds, was last seen wearing teal pants and a white shirt.
Authorities are asking anyone who may have information about his disappearance to contact the Corpus Christi Police Department at 361-886-2600.
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The grandparents of Caleb Harris were among the people watching police and volunteers search for their 21-year-old grandson. Harris lived at an off-campus housing complex called The Cottages at Corpus Christi.
Caleb, a second-year student at Texas A&M University- Corpus Christi, has been missing since Monday. The family's private investigator, Charlie Parker, says that the last sign of Caleb was at dawn Monday morning.
Parker told 3NEWS he believes he knows what happened to Caleb based on the information gathered so far.
"There was nothing strange or out of order. If you remember, in this case he ordered his lunch for the next day, you know they order them the day prior. So, he ordered his lunch for the next day. He didn't take anything with him, you know; he's barefoot. He was probably apprehended. He was probably captured by someone you know taken by someone and that's what you have to look at."
3NEWS asked Corpus Christi Police if the case was a criminal investigation or a missing person's case. CCPD Officer Travis Pace said:
"Right now, the information that I have been provided, it's still a search for a missing person and that's where we're at on it."
While police and the Texas Search and Rescue Organization, also known as TEXSAR, were looking through the heavy brush behind the St. Helena Catholic Church on Wooldridge Road, resident Josh Johnson drove up and showed officers a video he has that he believes is connected somehow to the case.
No one would talk about what was on the video but Johnson did speak with 3NEWS about why he brought the video over:
"I am just trying to help out anyway I can, give them everything I've got. But, I am a father and I wouldn't want this to happen to my child, so I'm doing everything I can to help them."
Caleb's dad, Randall Harris, was appreciative of the effort to find his son.
"We got a massive amount of college students out here, we got police out here and they're just doing an incredible job. They're doing what they do."
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