Fugitive football coach disappeared into woods with gun, family says

The fugitive Virginia precocious schoolhouse shot manager who disappeared amid a child pornography investigation was past seen entering a wooded country with a firearm, a household lawyer has said.

Travis L. Turner, 46, the decorated caput manager of Union High School in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, near his residence to locomotion into a "heavily wooded and mountainous area" connected Nov. 20, lawyer Adrian Collins said successful a connection connected behalf of the household obtained by WCYB.

"The past known interaction the household had with Travis occurred connected oregon astir Thursday, Nov. 20, aft helium near his residence to locomotion successful the woods with a firearm," the connection reads, noting that nary warrants for his apprehension had been made anterior to his disappearance.

Travis Turner, a decorated Virginia precocious schoolhouse shot coach, disappeared into wooded areas with a firearm amid a child pornography investigation. (Leslie Turner/Facebook)

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When helium didn't travel location that evening, his woman notified section instrumentality enforcement but was told she had to hold 24 hours to record a missing-person report, according to the statement. She submitted the study to Virginia State Police (VSP) the adjacent day.

The household said that they, on with friends, person searched the surrounding woods, though their efforts person been constricted by atrocious upwind and the request to debar interfering with the authoritative search.

On Tuesday, 5 days aft Turner was past seen, authorities announced that they had obtained 10 warrants to complaint him with 5 counts of possession of kid pornography and 5 counts of utilizing a machine to solicit a minor. 

Authorities said the probe remains ongoing and further charges are pending. Turner is present considered a fugitive, the VSP said.

Virginia State Police are searching for Union High shot manager Travis Turner, whose disappearance has stunned the Big Stone Gap community. (Virginia State Police)

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Turner was reported missing connected Friday, Nov. 21 — a time aft helium was past seen — arsenic Virginia State Police investigators were returning to his Appalachia location to talk with him astir the case. Police said they had visited the location connected Nov. 20, the time helium disappeared, and were not seeking to apprehension him astatine that time.

Turner’s woman Leslie Caudill Turner responded aft her hubby was charged, telling The Daily Mail that "none of that is true."

"He’s a bully dada and a bully husband, and we privation him home. That’s it," she said. "I don’t cognize anything. I don’t cognize anything. I’m sorry."

Travis Turner disappeared from his family’s location successful Appalachia, Virginia connected Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. Authorities announced that they person obtained 10 warrants to complaint Turner with 5 counts of possession of kid pornography and 5 counts of utilizing a machine to solicit a minor. (Facebook/Leslie Caudill Turner)

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Police person launched an extended hunt crossed Wise County utilizing drones, K-9 units and ft patrols. He was past seen wearing a grey sweatshirt, sweatpants and glasses, according to Virginia's missing idiosyncratic database.

Anyone with accusation astir Turner’s whereabouts is asked to interaction the Virginia State Police at (276) 228-3131.

Fox News' Julia Bonavita and Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.