According to the adolescent’s family, the last person who was 13 years before his death.
Oscar Omar Hernández was found dead in a ditch earlier this week in Ventura County, near Los Angeles, and his family says he was last seen with his youth soccer coach.
On Wednesday, the same day Hernández’s body was found, Los Angeles police arrested the coach for an unrelated sexual assault position in February 2024.
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A youth soccer coach is supposedly linked to the death of one of its players. (Getty images)
Hernández’s body was found approximately 70 miles from his house. According to Ktla in Los Angeles, the family called Hernández during the weekend, but the coach replied his phone, who said that Hernández’s hands were covered with paint, and could not answer the phone.
The family had a video talked with Hernández earlier in the day.
The teenager had gone to the coach’s house to help paint his team’s football shirts, his mother, Gladys Maribel Bautista, he told Fox 11. The family reported missing on Sunday after he never returned home, and his body was found three days later.
A soccer ball in the field before the football championship mentioned in Division III at the UNC Greensboro Soccer Stadium on December 2, 2017, in Greensboro, NC (Photos of Grant Halverson/NCAA through Getty Images)
The coach is now considered a person of interest in the case and, according to reports, has been questioned.
The coach does not consider himself a suspect, nor has his identity been released because the police have not publicly confirmed that he is the same person who is interrogated regarding the death of the adolescent.
Hernández’s sister, Alejandra, told Fox 11 that the coach “even helped us look for Oscar.”
“We never thought he would harm him,” he said.
A football goal after the transmission. (Images of Adam Davy/Pa through Getty Images)
Hernández and his family moved to California from Honduras three years ago.
