The fugitive Virginia high school football coach who disappeared amid a child pornography investigation was last seen entering a wooded area with a firearm, a family attorney has said.
Travis L. Turner, 46, the decorated head coach of Union High School in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, left his residence to walk into a "heavily wooded and mountainous area" on Nov. 20, attorney Adrian Collins said in a statement on behalf of the family obtained by missing-person report, according to the statement. She submitted the report to Virginia State Police (VSP) the next day.
The family said that they, along with friends, have searched the surrounding woods, though their efforts have been limited by bad weather and the need to avoid interfering with the official search.
On Tuesday, five days after Turner was last seen, authorities announced that they had obtained 10 warrants to charge him with five counts of possession of child pornography and five counts of using a computer to solicit a minor.
Authorities said the investigation remains ongoing and additional charges are pending. Turner is now considered a fugitive, the VSP said.
Turner was reported missing on Friday, Nov. 21 — a day after he was last seen — as Virginia State Police investigators were returning to his Appalachia home to speak with him about the case. Police said they had visited the home on Nov. 20, the day he disappeared, and were not seeking to arrest him at that time.
Turner’s wife Leslie Caudill Turner responded after her husband was charged, telling Virginia State Police at (276) 228-3131.
Fox News' Julia Bonavita and Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.