Missing Florida teen Jesus Trejo’s body was found in a canal near where his vehicle was discovered on September 4.
Police weren’t sure it was him but have now, after an autopsy, confirmed that it was him.
There was a focused search for Trejo after his vehicle was found on a road in the Everglades.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission found his blue Honda Civic near Ingraham Highway and 232nd Avenue in south Miami-Dade County.
He was last seen by is family around 9 a.m. on September 3. Clues began to appear that he was missing when he didn’t show up at his school, a local mechanic institute, on Wednesday.
“He just told us that he was going to meet somebody out here. I don’t know for what,” Angie Rodriguez, Trejo’s aunt, told WSVN. “We haven’t seen him since. We got worried like around 12 o'clock. We haven’t heard from him, and then today we started calling everybody, and we still haven’t heard from him.”
Police don’t think this is a case of foul play, since the keys weren’t in the car and no footsteps from the scene have been found.
