Missing coach Travis Turner left without essentials as family urges him to face child porn charges: Attorney

The household of missing Virginia precocious schoolhouse shot manager Travis Turner is urging him to instrumentality location and look kid pornography charges, according to a connection released by their attorney.

"The household of Travis Turner continues to cooperate with instrumentality enforcement efforts to find Travis. Their homes and properties person been searched aggregate times, with their consent," the family's attorney, Adrian Collins, said successful a connection obtained by Fox News Digital.

Turner, 46, was past seen walking into the woods adjacent his Appalachia location carrying a gun, thing helium had done "multiple times passim the years," according to the statement. 

Concern rapidly mounted for his wife, Leslie Caudill Turner, erstwhile she discovered that her husband, whose precocious schoolhouse shot squad was successful the midst of an undefeated season, had vanished without his car, keys, wallet, glasses oregon contacts, cash, oregon the medicine medications helium relies on.

Travis Turner was starring the Union High School shot squad done an undefeated play erstwhile helium disappeared from his family’s location successful Appalachia, Virginia, connected Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (Facebook/Leslie Caudill Turner)

"It is not similar Travis to vanish oregon enactment distant from home," the connection said.

When helium did not instrumentality home, his woman contacted authorities and filed a missing idiosyncratic study with the Virginia State Police (VSP).

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Virginia State Police person launched a hunt for Union High shot manager Travis Turner, whose disappearance has stunned the Big Stone Gap community. (Virginia State Police)

Collins noted that transgression charges were not obtained "until days aft helium failed to instrumentality home."

"He was not a fugitive nor wanted by instrumentality enforcement astatine the clip helium went missing. His woman was not helping him escape, she was asking for assistance to find him," helium said.

Last week, authorities 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. 

Authorities announced that they person obtained 10 warrants to complaint Travis Turner with 5 counts of possession of kid pornography and 5 counts of utilizing a machine to solicit a minor. Turner is employed arsenic a shot manager astatine Union High School successful Wise County, Virginia. (Facebook/Leslie Caudill Turner)

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The household besides issued a nonstop plea for the missing coach.

"If Travis has the quality and is capable to respond to his family’s wishes; your woman and children are successful distress," the lawyer said. "Leslie pleads for you to travel location and look the allegations by defending yourself successful a tribunal of law. Don’t permission your household to combat this conflict without you. They emotion and miss you. They privation you to cognize they are your support."

The U.S. Marshals Service announced it is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for immoderate accusation starring to his arrest. 

Last week, Turner’s unit illustration leafage was removed from Union High School’s website soon aft the probe was announced, ABC 7 reported.

Travis Turner disappeared from his family’s location successful Appalachia, Virginia connected Thursday, Nov. 20, 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)

In a erstwhile statement, a spokesperson for Wise County Public Schools confirmed that a unit subordinate employed by the territory had been placed connected administrative permission pending reappraisal of an outer allegation. Days later, the territory released an updated connection to admit that charges person since been filed against the unit subordinate successful question, but failed to place Turner by name. 

"The idiosyncratic remains connected permission and is not permitted connected schoolhouse spot oregon to person interaction with students," Superintendent Mike Goforth said. "The part volition proceed to cooperate with instrumentality enforcement arsenic this process moves forward. Because this is an progressive ineligible substance involving personnel, the part cannot remark further."

Union High School caput shot manager Travis Turner, who has been reported missing, successful an undated photograph released by the Virginia State Police. (Virginia State Police)

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The USMS did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.

Turner was past seen wearing a grey sweatshirt and sweatpants, according to Virginia's missing idiosyncratic database. Tips tin beryllium reported to 911, Virginia State Police oregon the USMS extremity enactment astatine 1-877-WANTED2 oregon online usmarshals.gov/tips.