US Marshals offer reward for fugitive Virginia football coach, warn he 'may be armed' as feds join manhunt

Nearly 2 weeks aft a decorated Virginia precocious schoolhouse manager mysteriously disappeared amid a kid pornography investigation, the U.S. Marshals Service has announced it is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for immoderate accusation starring to his arrest. 

Federal authorities are informing Travis L. Turner, 46, "may beryllium armed" portion urging anyone who whitethorn travel successful interaction with him to workout caution aft helium was past seen walking into a wooded country down his Appalachia location portion carrying a firearm connected Nov. 20, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. 

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. 

Turner was archetypal reported missing arsenic officers with the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Wytheville Field Office were en way to his Appalachia location to talk with him astir the probe connected Nov. 21, according to authorities. Officials had visited Turner’s location one-day prior, and were returning lone to talk with him and not marque immoderate arrests, constabulary said.

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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 Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (Facebook/Leslie Caudill Turner)

"VSP is inactive searching for Turner with the assistance of the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service," VSP spokesperson Robin Lawson said successful connection to Fox News Digital.

The USMS announced the reward connected Monday. Turner was past seen walking into a "heavily wooded and mountainous area" connected Nov. 20, Adrian Collins, an lawyer for the coach's family, said successful a connection 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, clarifying that nary warrants for his apprehension had been made anterior to his disappearance.

When Turner failed to instrumentality location aboriginal that evening, his woman reportedly notified section instrumentality enforcement of her husband’s disappearance. However, authorities told her that she had to hold 24 hours to record a missing-person report, which she submitted the adjacent day, according to the statement.

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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)

In summation to authorities utilizing K-9 units, drones and ft patrols to find Turner, his household has reportedly launched their ain hunt for the missing manager and are afloat cooperating with authorities, according to the attorney’s statement. 

The update comes connected the heels of Turner’s wife, Leslie Caudill Turner – who shares 3 children with the manager – deleting her societal media profiles implicit the weekend, according to The New York Post.

She antecedently utilized the accounts to observe the decorated shot coach’s undefeated play – on with sharing photos of household and friends, on with countless images of her children connected the sports fields.

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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)

The deletion follows Turner’s unit illustration leafage being removed from Union High School’s website soon aft the probe was announced, ABC 7 reported. 

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."

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Turner’s household attorney, the VSP and USMS did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.

Turner was past seen wearing a grey sweatshirt, sweatpants and glasses, 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.

Fox News Digital's Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.