Missing Teen's Body Found At Construction Site

SUGAR LAND, Texas -- The body of a missing teenage girl was discovered at a construction site in Fort Bend County Monday, five miles from where she was last seen, KPRC Local 2 reported.

A construction crew performing utility work found the body of Ashton Glover, 16, in a shallow grave at around 11 a.m. at the site on Oil Field Road near Thompson Crossing near Sugar Land, authorities said.

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The land was recently cleared for new home construction.

"Earlier today, a piece of heavy equipment apparently drove over the grave site and because of all the recent rain we've had, it made the body shift," Fort Bend County Sheriff Milton Wright said.

Glover was last seen at about 12:30 a.m. on Saturday at University Boulevard near Commonwealth Boulevard in Sugar Land. Officials said Glover left with two men in a light-colored Toyota pickup truck. Glover's friends told police that she knew the driver and may have known the other man.

Several people have been questioned in connection with Glover's disappearance. No arrests have been made.

Glover's father was devastated to learn about his daughter's death.

"I don't know how I'm going to make it without her, but I'll make it," Terry Glover said. "I don't know why you did it. I hope you realize later in life what you've done. It takes a messed up individual to do what they've done."

Search crews had been looking for clues about Glover's disappearance in popular mudding areas and were preparing to search the construction site when the body was found.

More than 100 volunteers with Texas EquuSearch battled heat and humidity to search for Glover Monday.

After they received word that a body was found, many began to cry and pray.

"Please go with Ashton and help her to find her way home," a woman prayed.

Some of the searchers did not know Glover, but said they felt compelled to help look for her.

"She lives in my area, so I just felt like I had to go do this," teenager Katy McCaslin said. "If I disappeared, or one of my friends disappeared, I'd want just random people to help search for me."

Police said Glover's pickup truck, a maroon 2004 extended-cab Ford Ranger, had been left at the It's a Grind shop on Sweetwater Boulevard on Friday.

Police are looking at a surveillance video taken at the coffee shop, which shows a man approaching Glover's truck and getting inside before driving away.

Officials said the truck was found later at a nearby Kroger parking lot. It is being processed for evidence.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Sugar Land police at 281-275-2525.