KILLEEN, Texas - The mother of missing Fort Hood soldier Sgt. Elder Fernandes, 23, is pleading for the public to help her find him.“When I see his picture of him smiling and know he is nowhere to be found, it just hurts more to look at it,” said Ailina Fernandes, who says she is hurting. “I don't know where he is.
I don't know what he's feeling. I don't know if he's hurt. I don't know what's going on with him,” she said.She says she hasn't heard from her son in over a week. "His phone is completely off," she said. "I don't have any contact with him."She says her son has been in the Army for almost four years.
He was supposed to call her after he got discharged from the hospital Monday but never did.RELATED: Missing Fort Hood soldier.