SAN ANTONIO — Every morning for the past two weeks, Victor Jimenez has woken up, jumped into his black pickup and searched for his youngest daughter.

Bianca Jimenez, 28, has been missing since the early morning hours of July 18 when she left her apartment in the 300 block of Adams Street without her car keys, purse or bicycle. She left behind a bashed-in window and blood smeared throughout the house.

“That's his routine now until the end when we find her,” said his wife, Mary Jimenez.

The police have not released details about her disappearance, saying only that they are concerned for her whereabouts and that it is an active investigation.

Mary Jimenez and her daughter's friends have posted fliers throughout the city and have had a few tips called in, but they've turned up no new information. There was also a group bicycle ride along the River Walk — where Bianca Jimenez frequently rode — to look for signs of her.

Mary Jimenez said her husband has not ridden a bike in 30 years, but he rode his daughter's bike 26 miles that day looking for her.

She said her daughter broke up with her boyfriend of 12 years earlier this year and recently made a lot of new friends.

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“We don't know a lot of them,” she said.

She is grateful for the family and high school friends who have helped with the search.

James Enger, 32, was Bianca Jimenez's date the night before she went missing. He'd met her about a month before through a mutual friend.

“I thought she was a wonderful, sweet person,” he said.

That evening, he said, he picked her up and they had a few drinks and went dancing. He said he drove her home at about 1:30 a.m. and walked her to the door of the four-plex she lived in. He said the two of them started “fooling around” on the front porch as the sky lit up with lightning.

“It's kind of romantic,” Enger said.

They moved into the foyer and continued until a man burst out of her apartment and started beating him up, he said.

“I started getting bludgeoned in the face,” Enger recalled.

With the lights out, he said he couldn't see his attacker, but believes Jimenez knew who the man was, as she called him by his name, urging him to stop.

A window in the foyer was broken during the scuffle and Jimenez may have cut one of her hands on a piece of glass.

At some point, Enger said, the fighting stopped and he left. The last time he saw her, he said, she was sitting on her living room floor.

Enger said he texted Jimenez the next day to see if she was OK, but got no reply. It was several hours before a mutual friend called Enger to ask if he'd seen Jimenez, who had not showed up that morning at a hair salon where she worked.

Enger said he has agreed to take a lie detector test for the San Antonio Police Department, but that has not come to fruition.

In the meantime, a fundraiser is being organized to help the family with search efforts. There is also an online account at the website gofundme to raise money for the family's expenditures as they continue searching for Bianca Jimenez.

“I'm just trying to find my daughter,” said Jimenez's mother, adding that the search — and their prayers — will continue until they find some answers. “We've been doing it every day.”

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