Police have confirmed a body found is that of a Morrow teenager who went on a lunch break from work and never returned.
Monica Ambriz, 17, left her job at the El Progresso grocery store on Tara Boulevard in Jonesboro at 4:45 p.m. Oct. 16.
About three hours later, the teen's mother told Clayton County police she saw an unidentified man driving Monica's car on Tara Boulevard near I-75. The car was found abandoned minutes later, with Monica's cell phone inside.
On Oct. 26, a female's body was found in an abandoned building on Arrowhead Boulevard, about a mile from El Progresso, police said. An autopsy confirmed the body was that of Ambriz.
Police declined to say how Ambriz was killed. No one is in custody, Officer Otis Willis with Clayton police told the AJC.
"We have strong leads," Willis said Tuesday night.
Friends and co-workers hung up black ribbons and Ambriz's pictures at the grocery store, Channel 2 Action News reported.
"It's terrible news ... terrible news that something like that happened to a person," the teen's co-worker Andres Oliveros told Channel 2. "You know you see one person one day and she'll be gone the next day."
Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact Clayton County police at 770-477-3747.
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