A TRAIL of blood and an abandoned car have been found in the search for a father who disappeared before his daughter's first Christmas.
Jose Guerrero, 20, vanished from Woodbridge, Virginia, on December 21 under "suspicious circumstances," police said.
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Guerrero had plans to go on a date with his girlfriend Sheila Perez but he left the house for a quick trip around 8pm and never returned.
"We were going to watch Christmas lights, go ice skating," she told WUSA.
"He said he was gonna be right back."
Two days after he disappeared, police found Guerrero's car abandoned less than a mile from his home with blood in the back seat.
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The family had been investigating on their own, as well.
They tracked Guerrero's phone to a local park, where they found a trail of blood leading into a wooded area, WRC reported.
The disappearance roiled the holiday season for the family.
Guerrero and Perez have a 10-month-old daughter named Avery, who didn't get to spend her first Christmas with her dad.
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“There was no Christmas for us; we were grieving for my son" Guerrero's mother Andrea Salgado told WRC.
“It’s not fair, somebody needs to speak up.”
In social media comments on the Prince William County Police Facebook page, people have expressed their support for the family and their investigation.
"Praying that Jose is returned safely to his loved ones," one commenter said.
Police believe that Guerrero "may be in need of assistance, which qualifies him as endangered."
Guerrero is described as 5-feet, 8-inches tall and 109lbs with brown hair and brown eyes.
He was last seen wearing a blue sweater, blue jeans, and black shoes.
Anyone with information about Guerrero's whereabouts is asked to call the Prince William County Police Department at (703) 792-6500.
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