CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — 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," Parker said. "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.
"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," CCPD Officer Travis Pace said.
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," Johnson said. "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," Harris said. "They're doing what they do."
Anyone with information about Caleb's whereabouts is urged to contact CCPD at (361) 886-2600.
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