“Investigators with the department have reason to believe that Adriana may have been with her father during the time of the homicide,” Walker County Sheriff Clint McRae said at a news conference Monday.

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McRae told reporters that authorities were operating under the assumption that the teenager had been abducted.

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“At this point in time, based on the information that we have, we do feel that that is a very strong possibility, and we’re working it as if she’s been abducted,” he said.

A Child Abduction Rapid Deployment team from the FBI is assisting the sheriff’s office in the investigation, a spokeswoman for the FBI Houston field office told The Post in an email.

Adriana Coronado is a 9th grader at Mayde Creek High School, according to the Katy Independent School District.

“Please return my daughter back cause I’m dying with hurt,” Coronado’s mother told KHOU 11 News in a phone interview. “Oh my God. This is my only daughter please return her to me.”

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Coronado’s mother spoke Spanish in the interview, according to KHOU. The station’s report did not include her name.

Officials don’t know whether Adriana saw her father’s apparent homicide, according to the Chronicle, but do think someone talked to her before the death occurred.

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“Police are looking for an unknown suspect in connection with her abduction,” read the Amber Alert, posted to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children website. “The child is believed to be in grave or immediate danger.”

According to the Chronicle:

Investigators believe gunshots were involved in Caesar Coronado’s death. His body was found burned in a rural area in northern Walker County. A pick-up truck, also burned, was found in Montgomery County that investigators believe is connected to the homicide.

Authorities are awaiting the completion of an autopsy.

In the Amber Alert, Adriana Coronado is described as about 5 feet tall, with brown eyes and black hair. Authorities say she wears black-framed glasses. The alert lists her age as 13, but at the news conference, McRae said she is 14.