Colombian mayor says body found in search for missing U.S. flight attendant
Eric Fernando Gutierrez Molina, 32, a U.S. citizen and North Texas resident, went missing Saturday evening after a night out with a fellow flight attendant.
A body was found during a search for an American Airlines flight attendant who disappeared during a layover in Medellin, Colombia, the city's mayor said Friday.
Gutierrez Molina was set to work on a return flight from Medellín to Miami on Sunday. His longtime partner, Ernesto Carranza, told CBS News that he became worried when he wasn't able to reach him on Sunday morning.
Fico Gutierrez, the mayor of Medellin, said on Friday that a "lifeless body" was found between the municipalities of Jerico and Puente Iglesias during the search for Gutierrez Molina.
"There is a very high probability that it is this person," he said in a social media post , adding that the body is being taken to the coroner's office in Medellin for identification. "We express our solidarity to his family and friends. I have just personally delivered the painful news to his father, who is in Medellin."
Fico Gutierrez said an investigation is underway. Additional details were not immediately available.