Brandon Hugo Gomes: Contact and Location
Family recollections and dated records.
Abstract
NamUs distinguishes Brandon Hugo Gomes’s October 1, 2023 face-to-face family contact from an October 6 text to a friend.1
Family Accounts
Julian Paras’s October 2023 KOAT report presents a direct interview with Gomes’s mother. She described their long video conversations and her effort to keep in touch while he traveled.2
Speaking to Dan Alexander for New Jersey 101.5, she described his Rutgers studies in physics and mathematics, a new business and his love of travel and music.3
Alexander reported family messaging on October 3. That account does not settle whether communication with someone else occurred subsequently.3
Sourced Accounts and Questions
Here’s where you come in. Can you separate observed meetings, messages and phone-location estimates in an original public chronology?1
Can you identify which dated agency account supports each reported stop? Keep those sources and their limits in a Research File in Almost Solved.2
Show later developments and reported outcomes
Later Record Details
Paras attributed an October 6 hotel checkout in Albuquerque and a car remaining there to Albuquerque Police. Hotel records and surveillance were not inspected here.2
Alexander likewise reported an October 3 check-in and October 6 checkout. These attributed hotel details do not establish a later destination.3
NamUs’s narrative describes a San Ysidro-area phone ping without coordinates; it does not document a physical observation there.1
Scope and Method
Current findings require agency confirmation.
Prepared with AI assistance. Sources and references checked against the cited public materials. This paper is an original synthesis of the identified public sources; it does not reproduce article bodies, transcripts, or an investigative file.
Footnote References
- NamUs, MP111165; reviewed November 4, 2026.
- Julian Paras, KOAT, October 2023, family interview.
- Dan Alexander, New Jersey 101.5, October 2023, family interview.