Missing Carlos Lugo: Teen's Body Found With Gunshot Wounds Weeks After Disappearance

A 14-year-old Texas boy, Carlos Lugo, who has been missing for weeks was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds, police said.

Deputies from the Houston police department responded to a field in northern Houston on Feb. 4 after they received a report of a body. The responding officers found the unidentified decomposing body about a mile away from Lugo's last known location. An autopsy later confirmed his identity, officials said as reported by Charlotte Observer.

Lugo was last seen when his mother dropped him off at a friend's apartment on Tidwell on Jan. 21. He was reported missing two days later.

"According to the mother, she had dropped her son off in the area to get together with some friends. She dropped him off [and] then never heard from him again. That was unlike him. He would call and check in with her and she said she had not heard from him in about two weeks," Houston Police Department detective Kyle Heaverlo said.

Officials have not identified a suspect or determined the motive behind the killing. However, they suspect foul play as the body was recovered from a field.

"It's not a place I would want to be. I would say there's probably a higher likelihood foul play is involved than not," Heaverlo said, as reported by ABC 13.

Meanwhile, anyone with information about the case has been requested to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 or speak anonymously with Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.

Lugo's mother, Rosa remembers him as a kind teenager and wants justice for her son.

"Carlos meant a lot to my family, and it's a family. I just hope that they find whoever did it to him," his family friend Nancy Salias told the outlet.

In a similar incident last month, a 15-year-old girl from Michigan was found dead near her school's football field days after she went missing. The police found the body of Adriana Davidson, from Ann Arbor, near the football field at Pioneer High School three days after she vanished. Davidson was last seen boarding a public bus to go to her school on Jan. 27. Officials do not suspect any foul play, reports said.