CORPUS CHRISTI, TX. (THECOUNT) — A body has been discovered amid the search for missing Texas A&M-Corpus Christi student, Brandon Rios.
Corpus Christi police have located a body in a wooded area near Oso Bay and Halifax Drive. A positive identification of the body has not yet occurred.
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Rios, 18, was last seen leaving his home around 7 a.m. Friday, May 3 and was reported missing the following day. Rios is a student at TAMUCC.
The body was found with the assistance of the United States Border Patrol and its K-9 unit.
A search party spent much of Wednesday scanning the trails along the Oso Bay Wetlands Preserve looking for signs of Rios, reports KRISTV.
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Geo quick facts: Corpus Christi is a Texas city on the Gulf of Mexico. It’s tucked into a bay and its beaches are sheltered by Padre and Mustang islands. The Padre Island National Seashore is home to migratory birds and endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles. The harborfront Texas State Aquarium has touch pools, an aquatic nursery and a shark exhibit. Nearby, a WWII aircraft carrier, USS Lexington, now houses a naval aviation museum – wikipedia.