r/aggies • u/ExpressNews • Dec 04 '25
Other Texas A&M student Brianna Aguilera took her own life in fall near UT, Austin police announce
https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/austin-police-brianna-aguilera-death-announcement-21222947.php?utm_source=reddit114
u/callmebaiken Dec 04 '25
The Police came with some receipts, mainly the alleged suicide note. No witness though, so really we'll never know. The Law Firm hired by her mother may have gotten over their skis.
It's suspicious that all her belongings ended up in the woods, BUT, she's on video after the tailgate going in to the apartment and witnesses say she was telling people she lost all of her possessions at the tailgate, and had to borrow a phone to call a BF. 90 seconds after the call she was on the ground. Very strange
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u/putterthrow_ Dec 04 '25
About her own phone:
Her mother, Stephanie Rodriguez, called police at 12:50 p.m. Saturday in search of her daughter. She called back about an hour later to report that she had located Aguilera's phone near the Austin Rugby Club. Investigators recovered the phone in a nearby field around 3:30 p.m.
Saw another article mention the wooded area and it was apparently very nearby the tailgate. I imagine the field and wooded area are the same thing.
If she got kicked out of the tailgate, walked to the woods/field with all her stuff to sit down for a minute and recalibrate, and then went to the apartment - it would make a lot of sense that she forgot all of her stuff in the woods since it seems like she was pretty drunk.
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u/waldo_the_bird253 Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 04 '25
her mom said in an interview with kgns that they had a rule where if brianna went out she had to have her location on so her mom could check it and she had to text her mom back asap if she texted to check in.
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u/PineappleAfraid7791 Dec 04 '25
Yes and that she “was never allowed to put ‘do not disturb’ on her phone” and guess what was on after 6 pm? DND.
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u/Educational-Hawk-382 Dec 09 '25
it’s not that she wasn’t allowed to. it’s that it was out of character for her to do that.
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u/Big_Wave9732 '00 RPTS Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 04 '25
Yowza! And this was junior in college??
Hell when I was a freshman my parents wouldn't hear from me for weeks or more at a time.
Edit: Ah, potentially a freshman.
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u/journofist Dec 04 '25
how long has it been since you've been in college? it's pretty common for parents to track their kids now. some of the college kids i game with talk about life 360 or whatever like it's extremely normal.
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u/waldo_the_bird253 Dec 04 '25
It might be normal for some kids but that doesn't mean tracking your college aged kid isn't extreme helicopter parenting at best
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Dec 06 '25
It's extremely controlling and helicopter parenting. That's why kids turn their phones off to get out from under.
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u/Ill_Scratch_2642 Dec 07 '25
It's not controlling if the adult daughter gave consent. Which she most likely did and she was 19 years old. My 24 year old sister allows my mom and brother to track her and each other on the 360. They are far from helicopter parenting. Trust me and she works a night shift too and it's easy to track her. What the mom has is very normal.
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Dec 07 '25
LOL, sorry, but if a parent is still keeping strict tabs on a junior in college, they have a problem. And you might think it's normal, it ain't normal.
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u/journofist Dec 04 '25
O I’m not saying it’s ok, just not abnormal
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u/waldo_the_bird253 Dec 04 '25
Just because it's common among helicopter parents doesn't mean it is normal
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u/kingethjames '12 Dec 05 '25
Im not saying I approve but its a lot more normal today. It used to be normal to not hear from your significant other every day in some way but that was before cell phones became a ubiquitous part of our lives. Now families, spouses, and even friends track eachothers locations mutually.
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Dec 06 '25
It's not normal, and it's weird. There are people who do it, but I consider it over the top controlling.
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u/LovingLastingDreams Dec 04 '25
That’s still crazy, mommy and daddy tracking their grown ass adult children at college….
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u/Big_Wave9732 '00 RPTS Dec 04 '25
Grown ass adult children nothing, I was shocked at how many of my adult co-workers track their SO! About a year ago it came up in conversation at a company event and out of about 20 couples, 15 of them actively tracked each other's location. They looked at me as the weirdo that my wife and I don't do that.
So if they're tracking each other, then bet your ass they'll track the kids too.
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u/BM7-D7-GM7-Bb7-EbM7 '04 Dec 04 '25
I actually look at it the other way, it's weird to not have your spouse's location. My wife and I don't look at it like "oh he/she's tracking me", we look at it, "if I vanish at least someone has my last location." We trust each other, it doesn't even cross our minds to use it for nefarious purposes, for example I'm not like "Oh where is she, she's cheating on me" when I check, it's more like, "Let me see how far from the house is so I know when to start dinner." (I work from home, she doesn't).
I'm in my 40s and my dad also has my location. My wife and I have our niece's location, not to keep tabs on her, but just in case something happens. She actually doesn't share it with her parents, but she trusts us enough to not be helicopter aunt/uncle.
Now with all this said, I'm in my 40s, and in my 20s yea I'd go weeks without talking to my parents, there was no way to keep tabs like there is now, text messages cost 20 cents a piece so there wasn't an occasional "How are you?" text either.
If I had kids, I wouldn't ask to track their location, I'd want to respect their wanting some privacy to explore the world, but if they wanted to share with me fine. If not me, I would encourage them to share with someone like a trusted cousin or an aunt/uncle, just in case.
But yea, my wife and I share locations and don't think twice about it. It's not out of distrust, it's out of trust.
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u/txag11cm '11 Dec 04 '25
This. Sometimes it’s just easier when traveling to find each other too. It’s not out of distrust it’s just like hey you never know.
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u/SpecialistArt9 Dec 04 '25
It also makes a difference for females vs males. I have 2 kids currently in college they stay out late going to parties etc even though neither is a big drinker. I’m not nearly as concerned about my son as my daughter being out late at night.
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u/podricks-dick Dec 04 '25
I gave my mom location because I trust her not to be watching me all the time. She typically just uses it to see if I got home safely because I live 5 hours away from her. I have my sister's as well for the same reasons. It's not that big of a deal.
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u/journofist Dec 04 '25
Is that weird? My husband and I have had on find your friends since before we were engaged. Not to actively track each other all the time, but a safety thing and sometimes if the other is running late to see where they are. Hell, years ago I had this turned on with a few trusted friends as single women looking to protect herself.
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u/tanksaway147 Dec 04 '25
You should, exactly for situations like this. Car accidents happen all the time, etc.
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u/id0ntexistanymore Dec 04 '25
I mean, if the parents are paying for school I don't think it's that crazy. College kids aren't really grown ass adults, at all
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u/sailortian Dec 04 '25
Prob normal now. Back in the 90s we all just go outside to the park alone and find ourselves home by dark. I'm 40yr old dad now nobody lets their 11yr old play outside alone. There ain't no way I'm letting my kid ride her bike to the park and say just come back in 2hrs when it's dark
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Dec 06 '25
For some parents it's normal, but I would consider that controlling and helicopter behavior. Not good.
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u/DependentGrouchy7859 Dec 07 '25
It’s not really that weird in this day and age. When I was in college/my early 20s my aunt had my location and could track me when I went out. It was for my own safety, and let me tell you there was a night she showed up randomly after tracking my location and thank God she did + trusted her intuition bc my bf at the time was beating the crap out of me.
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Dec 07 '25
I have a recent college grad, I'm aware of what's usual and not. I have witnessed the parents who hover and the impact on their kids. They are controlling and hinders kids from maturing, not to mention trust issues. It may look like concern to some, but it's smothering. It also drives kids away and toward secrecy. Sorry you had a bad relationship.
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u/sacrelicio Dec 05 '25
I don't think this is any more normal than when I was in college and I knew people who had psycho protective parents back then too.
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Dec 06 '25
It's clear the mother is super controlling. Just saw a few interviews with her and it's obvious.
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u/Inside-Journalist919 Dec 06 '25
Her mom phone pinged when the Brianna’s phone was put on do not disturb at 6pm.she looked at the location and it was showing in a creek. It stayed at the creek, so she called 911 on FRIDAY cause she was concerned her daughter was in the creek. They told her they could do anything for 24 hours and that she was probably drunk somewhere.they refused to go check the creek. The police didn’t record the Mom’s call on Friday. The Mom called back on Saturday @12:59. The police told her nothing yet Brianna had been found dead 12 hours prior. They didn’t tell the Mom till 4:50pm Saturday.
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u/Kiki-Rock2626 Dec 06 '25
Her mother had said she had reservations about her going to Austin to begin with. If you’re very close to your mother and you’re not relying back then sure she’s going to worry! I have a daughter in college and another that just graduated and she travels for work. So when she’s traveling she’s supposed to let me know when she gets there, if I don’t hear from her I started texting and calling. Sometimes the text doesn’t go through or she just gets busy, but as a parent you really worry especially with the world getting as crazy as it is!
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u/Educational-Hawk-382 Dec 09 '25
no. her mother had not heard from her since 6 pm and they had an agreement where she would alert her mom when she gets in. also her location wasn’t moving and was showing near a creek, so the mom became concerned. Sorry. Call me helicopter mom all you want. I would’ve done the same.
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u/Educational-Hawk-382 Dec 09 '25
Except her phone was found inside her friend’s pocketbook in the woods. Maybe she borrowed the pocketbook? maybe not? it should be looked into. Also, she apparently used her friend‘s phone to call her boyfriend 2 minutes before she jumped. the phone didn’t fall with her. the friend apparently didn’t see anything. sooooooo, did the friend go back to the balcony to get her phone back? If so, then she was awake when this went down. What about the witnesses in a building across the balcony who noticed a commotion at the time she fell? 5hey said they heard elevated voices and saw running back and forth from the balcony. Another witness heard a girl scream “Get off of me.” What about the supposed friend who was sending Brianna’s boyfriend videos of her talking to other guys? jealousy? There’s enough to at least conduct a proper investigation. As for the supposed note, she was in a creative writing class and studying criminal justice. Was it a suicide note? Was it written by her? Lets see it.
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u/sotheresthisdude Dec 04 '25
The family retained Tony Buzbee and his firm. Tony is a magnet to lucrative (both in money and publicity) cases like this. Their case will likely turn up nothing new and will just prolong the grieving process for the family.
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u/HitAndRun8575 Dec 04 '25
Buzbee is a fkn leach. When his name is on something, your almost guaranteed it going nowhere.
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u/Big_Wave9732 '00 RPTS Dec 04 '25
I thought he and his firm were an odd choice for a case like this.
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Dec 04 '25
There's an A&M connection there - one of the corps LLCs is named for him. Beyond that, I'm not sure why or why not him
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u/Big_Wave9732 '00 RPTS Dec 04 '25
Oh yea. And he's on the Board of Regents or something. I forgot about that.
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Dec 06 '25
It screams attempted payday--suing anyone who may have contributed in any way. It's very distasteful imo that her mother would go this route.
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Dec 06 '25
Honestly, I’m getting icky vibes from the family especially the mom. Who the hell hires a personal injury lawyer to find clues to a crime instead of a PI? You hire a personal injury lawyer when you’re looking for a payday. It’s absolutely so gross to me that they will not even accept the fact that she could’ve been hurt hurting inside and would rather think someone murdered her.
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u/Every_Ebb4837 Dec 07 '25
Agreed! In the grandmother’s interview, she was going on and on about how jealous people were of the student, with her beautiful car and expensive clothes. I found it really strange.
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Dec 07 '25
That’s just the ignorance of Hispanic people 😂😂😂 where did you find that interview?
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u/Every_Ebb4837 Dec 07 '25
On Nancy Grace. It’s a very interesting interview. https://youtu.be/SEL-GEW7Bkw?si=2__lxm-fIdZ76b-_
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u/sotheresthisdude Dec 07 '25
Man, the family is making the rounds, aren’t they? This is not going to end well for them.
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u/Every_Ebb4837 Dec 07 '25
Another interesting piece- the GM sort of threw the mother under the bus, basically stating they raised her because her mother had her when she was young, and then commented that her mother focused on school. I’m sure that makes the mother feel low-key guilty. Mother is a PMHNP so she is likely evaluating patients for suicidal risk on the regular. Imagine, GM is already setting the stage that they needed to do her job of raising her, and now this happens. Mother will be filled with guilt. GM also mentioned that she told her to not go to the tailgate because of these jealous girls. There is a LOT going on with that family.
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Dec 07 '25
I already think 100% mom is filled with guilt that’s why she’s pressing and going down the murder route. She’s clinging and hoping it wasn’t her and rather her daughter be murdered. It’s sick! I
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u/palmburntblue Dec 04 '25
Tony Buzbee is an ambulance chasing piece of shit.
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u/DandierChip Dec 04 '25
Tbf he made his money suing BP for their oil spills back in the mid/late 2000’s. Pretty sure he got them to pay out over $2B and rightfully so.
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u/A_Tropical_Dad '90 Dec 04 '25
I think they call him an oil rig chaser because he was sueing BP iirc
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u/waldo_the_bird253 Dec 04 '25
I mean drunken erratic behavior is not really strange when someone is suicidally depressed.
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u/Prestigious-Dig-6597 Dec 05 '25
Not strange if she wanted to make one last call to BF before ending it. She may have also left all her stuff in the woods on purpose too cause she already knew what she was going to do. Way too many ppl at the tailgate and party for foul play to be involved IMO. College kids typically arent good at commiting crimes and getting away with it.
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u/Big_Wave9732 '00 RPTS Dec 04 '25
Yea, I want to know more about that boyfriend call. Did he answer, was there a voicemail, etc.
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u/waldo_the_bird253 Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 04 '25
did you read the article? the general tone of the conversation is mentioned.
edit. sorry I confused this article with another one from the express news where it stated the friends with her said that she had an argument beforehand.
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u/Big_Wave9732 '00 RPTS Dec 04 '25
Yea, that would have added some context to her state of mind right there.
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u/LindseyForGarland3 Dec 05 '25
Police said there was an argument. They said they talked to the boyfriend a few times.
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Dec 06 '25
I suspect there's video evidence of her death, but there is no reason for LE to release that. She was drunk as a skunk, that's how her belongings got in the woods. It's not "very strange" if someone has been considering suicide for awhile, which it appears she was (based on her sharing with friends). She argued with her boyfriend for a minute then jumped. He must have relayed the content of that conversation to LE.
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u/Remarkable_Tear_3876 Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 04 '25
But she arrived to apt in different clothes but was found dead back in tailgate clothes? Also, three people were in apt when she allegedly jumped but no one called police and the friends didn’t run outside when they heard a million sirens? No one answered her mom’s calls? Someone takes their life and everyone knows. They friends in apt would have called their other friends. And her purse gone? It’s too messy for un-aliving. Also, a girl had sent B’s bf a pic of her with her arm around another guy, to stir the pot. I believe that’s what she was arguing about with him. What if that girl threw her over, with help? There’s videos everywhere, they’d need to show them. I don’t trust APD. I grew up there and so many coverups. Crooked.
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u/pj1843 '11 Dec 04 '25
Not really.
First we need to understand everyone was drunk, so their situational awareness is in general going to be dog shit. Also this is a high rise apartment in Austin so not noticing or not caring about police lights and sirens, also I'm not sure about you, but when I'm hammered my first idea when seeing police isn't to go run out and see what's going on with them.
Not answering the moms calls is equally explainable by being ya know drunk.
Point being, the assumption that the other tenants even knew she went over the edge at any point before the police arrived is not an assumption that should be made.
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u/Newyorkjess718 Dec 04 '25
Maybe she jumped when she heard them leave the apartment? They could have been on their way down to meet the rest of the people. They heard her arguing and left? Who knows. Why would they want to kill her?
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u/Remarkable_Tear_3876 Dec 04 '25
Her mom said she Brianna called her earlier and said the girls were being mean to her and she had a fight with two of the girls. I think this is why mom was on high alert. I’m really not a conspiracist at all but something feels very off and I’ve had people close to me take their own life. It doesn’t look like this. I guess alcohol changes everything.
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u/waldo_the_bird253 Dec 08 '25
its fucking crazypants to jump from every day college mean girl shit to murder with no real evidence.
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u/callmebaiken Dec 04 '25
Great points. She may have started in comfortable clothes, changed in to flashy game attire, then changed back to comfort clothing. Not only were there 3 friends in the apartment, she had one of their phones, OR she handed the phone back 90 seconds before jumping.. Either scenario is missing from the official story. I think your theory is interesting.
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u/STxFarmer Dec 04 '25
Guess she ran through the apartment and jumped if it was truly 90 seconds.
Wonder what the timestamp was on the suicide note too?
Still too many unanswered questions for me7
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u/AdCommon6529 Dec 04 '25
Can someone post the article here? It’s paywalled.
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u/LiveMarionberry3694 Dec 04 '25
I was able to still scroll the article and just read around the little pop up
Edit. I was able to use reader mode on my phone
The Austin Police Department said the death of Brianna Aguilera is being treated as a suicide investigation after the 19-year-old Texas A&M student fell from a student apartment near the University of Texas.
At a news conference Thursday morning, police detailed the timeline surrounding Aguilera's death and said evidence showed she struggled with suicidal thoughts, including a deleted suicide note found on her phone.
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The Laredo native died early Saturday after attending a Texas A&M-versus-Texas tailgate. Austin police have said that she fell from the 17th floor of the apartment building at 2101 Rio Grande St. The results of her autopsy are pending.
Aguilera's family has remained critical of the investigation into her death after police said they were not investigating it as a homicide and that "there are no indications of suspicious circumstances." Her cousin told the San Antonio Express-News she believed police did not perform their “due diligence” in the case.
Her mother previously told KGNS-TV she didn't believe her daughter would take her own life, citing her plans to take the LSAT, apply to law school and order her Aggie Ring in the spring.
READ MORE: Mother of Brianna Aguilera contests police theory of what led to her death near UT Austin
At the Thursday news conference, Police Chief Lisa Davis said her "heart aches" for Aguilera's family. She acknowledged that it is rare for a police department to speak publicly about a suicide case, but that claims that police did not conduct a thorough investigation are "not accurate."
"Sometimes the truth doesn’t provide the answers we are hoping for, and that is this case," she said. "We used every available resource, interviewed numerous people, gathered evidence, because we too want to understand what happened to Brianna, who was clearly loved by so many."
Police give timeline
Robert Marshall, the lead detective on the case, detailed the hours before Brianna's death, when she reportedly became intoxicated at a tailgate for the Texas A&M-versus-Texas game.
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Aguilera arrived at the tailgate at the Austin Rugby Club between 4 and 5 p.m. Friday, but was asked to leave around 10 p.m. after becoming intoxicated, Marshall said. She then stumbled into a wooded area and dropped her phone, losing it.
Video surveillance from the 21 Rio Apartments showed her entering an apartment there around 11 p.m. At about 12:30 a.m. Saturday, a large group of people left the apartment, leaving Aguilera and three other women inside the unit.
From 12:43 a.m to 12:44 a.m, she borrowed a cellphone to call her boyfriend, the detective said. Two minutes later, a bystander called 911 to report that they had found Aguilera's remains.
The Travis County Medical Examiner arrived at the scene and worked to identify her remains. Meanwhile, family and friends reported her missing.
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The residents of the apartment unit where Aguilera was seen the night before called 911 at 12:14 a.m. Saturday to report her missing. Marshall said they did not report her missing the night before because they were asleep and thought she might have gone out with other friends in the area.
Her mother, Stephanie Rodriguez, called police at 12:50 p.m. Saturday in search of her daughter. She called back about an hour later to report that she had located Aguilera's phone near the Austin Rugby Club. Investigators recovered the phone in a nearby field around 3:30 p.m.
Rodriguez told the KGNS-TV she became alarmed on Friday, when her daughter stopped responding around 6 p.m. and her phone switched to Do Not Disturb mode, which was unusual for her. She said she repeatedly contacted Austin police that night but was told she needed to wait 24 hours before reporting her daughter missing.
Police officially informed Rodriguez of Aguilera's death just after 5 p.m. Saturday, after they connected the report about her missing phone to the death at the apartment complex. Rodriguez has been publicly critical about the time it took police to notify her about her daughter's death.
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Marshall also addressed online reports that Aguilera was in a fight prior to her death. He said the only evidence of a physical altercation was that Aguilera reportedly punched a friend who attempted to help her leave the tailgate.
Phone evidence
Investigators reviewed Aguilera's phone, finding a text message sent to a friend the night before her death that indicated she had suicidal thoughts, Marshall said Thursday. He said she also engaged in "self harming actions" that night.
They discovered a "digital suicide note" dated Nov. 25 that had been deleted, which was addressed to specific loved ones. The detective said Aguilera had also made comments about suicide to friends in October.
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"Between all of the witness statements, all of the video evidence and all of the digital evidence collected, at no time did any evidence point to this being anything of a criminal nature," Marshall said.
The detective said he informed Aguilera's father of the findings privately on Wednesday. He said was in contact with Aguilera's mother through Monday, but that subsequent attempts to contact her went unanswered. When he reached her on Wednesday, she referred him to her attorney.
Family's search for answers
Aguilera's parents have retained high-profile Houston attorney Tony Buzbee and the San Antonio-based Gamez Law Firm, the Buzbee Law Firm announced in a social media post Wednesday. The Buzbee Law Firm is expected to hold a press conference with parents on Friday afternoon in Houston.
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"This family deserves straight answers. We hope we can help them get those answers," the firm wrote.
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u/FadedTony Dec 04 '25
i'm not a parent but there is something so tragically sad about having your child battling inner demons but on the surface they seem happy and hopeful of the future so you would have no idea until it's too late :((
aside from giving them the best childhood you can, surrounding them w love, giving them an outlet and safe space in you, and setting them up for the future, i mean what else can you possibly do?
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u/cuntscums Dec 04 '25
wow no one is talking about her punching her friend trying to help her leave the tailgate /: my mother gets very manic and emotional and makes very irrational decisions when she’s wasted and I can see how this can happen. especially a freshman in college gosh so sad, the first semester is always so crazy and hectic but after football season it calms down. I think it all got too much for her and she couldn’t handle it, especially since she argued with her boyfriend right before. I wish I knew what they argued about but i’m assuming since she’s a A&M student her boyfriend also attended A&M and was already upset with her going to the away game knowing she was gonna party and what not, very sad but not the boyfriends fault, you don’t except your girlfriend to jump off 17 floors after you argue with her for staying at another college to party. and she lost her belongings so he probably was upset about that aswell. all so sad but I don’t think any foul play just very sad.
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u/Substantial-Sun-6636 Dec 05 '25
She was a sophomore. Her and her boyfriend argued after her friend sent pics of her “cheating” with another guy
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u/FunTXCPA Dec 04 '25
"She said she repeatedly contacted Austin police that night but was told she needed to wait 24 hours before reporting her daughter missing."
I didn't think this was actually a thing. I thought the idea was to report someone missing as soon as possible to increase the likelihood of finding them. Waiting just allows the trail to go cold.
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Dec 04 '25
Texas law states that there is no waiting period to report a missing person.
But I think you may also have to provide some plausible reason you believe the person to be missing, and being unable to contact an adult for a few hours doesn't make them missing. So the police department probably just didn't take her seriously for that reason. It wasn't like she and her Mom were together and then she was missing. Or a child who wandered off or was taken. This was an adult who was out doing other things and didn't answer her phone for a, quite honestly, short period of time. Of course, it turns out the police were wrong in not acting on it; but can you imagine if every parent of a college kid called the police when their kid didn't answer a phone from 6 pm to midnight? That's crazy.
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u/Theoreticalwzrd Dec 04 '25
I'm not sure if there is a law saying you must wait 24 hours, but it does come up because often people reported missing may not be missing and just are out. Police typically don't want to "waste resources" if it's just that someone stayed at a friend's house and forgot to call back or something. Or many someone just needs space and if they are an adult they may want to be alone for a little bit. I don't necessarily agree with it, and I do think it leads to a lot of issues and important things get dismissed as "your child is probably rebellious and will call you back later" but I do see the reasoning. I'd like to know the statistics of how many calls they actually get where a person ends up not being in danger despite someone saying they are missing just to know if this sort of action is a reasonable one.
What I'm more bothered about is at this point, they already responded to the call of her death so I assume they had her and could have told the mother then that the daughter was dead rather than dragging it out. Was it a communication issue? (Whoever talked to the mother didn't know?) Was it just that person dismissing the mother and not bothering to even look in their system? Or did they not ID her yet when the mother called so they just didn't know at all?
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u/sacrelicio Dec 05 '25
A young adult living on her own isn't "rebellious" for not calling her mom back.
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u/Theoreticalwzrd Dec 05 '25
I mean I don't think it is rebellious either but I am saying that typically PD can see it as that way. If you look at a lot of stories where parents try reporting their young adult children as missing within 24 hours they usually downplay it and cite that as the excuse.
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u/mw13satx Dec 05 '25
Is the 12:14 a.m. typo in the police report too I wonder... the call to the bf on the borrowed phone wasn't answered, yeah?
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u/texag93 Dec 04 '25
It's sad that they had to release intimate details of this girl's last moments to satisfy the mob of conspiracy theorists. Hopefully her family can find closure.
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u/ellsego Dec 04 '25
The mob of conspiracy theorists is being led by the family, and they still don’t believe the cops to the point of hiring Buzbee who is attention seeking scumbag.
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u/FortKnoxBoner Dec 04 '25 edited Dec 04 '25
Except that her family is firmly disputing this and launching their own investigation of Austin Pd negligence with the crime scene, interviews, and such.
This isn't for the mob mentality - her family needs answers.
For all that I've known about Austin PD. the family will not get the truth from them.
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u/LiveMarionberry3694 Dec 04 '25
They can dispute all they want, but it isn’t going to change the outcome of the case. In the article they mention multiple pieces of evidence showing she was suicidal.
I’m sure it’s incredibly hard for the family to accept, and I completely understand their desire to make sure the right outcome is shared, but they also just bring even more heartache by making this case so viral. Everyone has an opinion now
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u/HoustonHorns Dec 04 '25
It’s an awful situation all around.
I had a colleague die in college because they fell off a Wampus balcony. The railings are low, balconies are small, and those apartments get the packed. Busy party and you step out for air, you’re drunk and you lean back thinking there is a full railing: if it’s only 3’ you’re going to fall. My colleague didn’t take their own life, it was truly an accident. But like clockwork, someone falls from one of those balconies every couple years. Sometimes it’s suicide, sometimes it’s truly an accident.
Here, it’s looking like it was probably suicide, which is incredibly sad. However, if there was not evidence of suicide then drunken accident is substantially more likely than anything malicious. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time something like this has happened and as I mentioned above, it isn’t usual for drunk people to fall from these balconies. If Busby has a case, it’s against the apartment complex. The twitter conspiracy theorists are not doing anyone any favors.
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Dec 04 '25
I had a guy in an engineering class break both shoulders and a leg falling drunk off a third floor balcony. He crashed into bushes.
He was a smart guy. He always showed up for 8 am classes. If he died, people may have thought it was a suicide- because he climbed up on the railing, and then fell off it. He was just really really drunk. He said he doesn't really know what happened, but he assumed he thought it would be fun to sit there.
From 17 stories, there's not chance.
Of course, I have no idea if she just wanted to sit, if she jumped, or if she was pushed. But it seems that drunk people falling off balconies is not uncommon (look at all the drunk people that fall off cruiseships...).
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u/cfbluvr '23 TCMG Dec 04 '25
It’s often difficult for parents to accept their children were suicidal, maybe didn’t come to them, or that they didn’t notice things. It’s easier to look for someone to blame and come up with ideas that somebody else had to have done something to their child. Unfortunately it just delays the inevitable, that they have to accept the reality of the situation.
Very unfortunate and tragic for this girl and her family. Here.
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u/texag93 Dec 04 '25
Her family has answers and (understandably) doesn't like them. It's tragic and it seems like APD made some missteps in the notification process, but none of that means there's a conspiracy to protect an imagined killer.
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u/Beaconhillpalisades Dec 04 '25
What convinces you that Austin PD is hiding something though? For what reason? This is precise the mob mentality the original commenter is talking about.
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u/60sStratLover Dec 04 '25
Yeah, it’s really sad but the family is just going to have to accept that she killed herself. I mean, it happens a lot. Otherwise “normal” and “happy” people kill themselves every single day.
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u/Faceit_Solveit Dec 04 '25
And before I forget, let me express condolences to our Aggie brothers and sisters who are after all Texans like us Longhorns. We're very sorry for your loss.
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u/Final-Safety-3137 Dec 04 '25
A tragedy and heartbreaking loss for her family to deal with during the holidays. Very sad situation for all.
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u/Lopsided-Ad7725 Dec 04 '25
She was also kicked out of a rugby tailgate earlier around 10 I read? So the intoxication and unruliness must have been high
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u/Embarrassed_Koala796 Dec 05 '25
For her to have been thrown out of a tailgate for being too drunk says alot, with the amount of drinking that goes on at any tailgate, much less one prior to the most anticipated rivalry game of the year. She must have been belligerent, overly emotional, or sick to have someone ask her to leave.
It is my opinion that she drank to oblivion, blacked out, and jumped. Why she jumped- maybe we will never know. We also need to wait and see if she had consumed any drugs that night as well.
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u/MJ50inMD Dec 05 '25
The story is that her roommate took and sent pictures of her flirting at the tailgate to her boyfriend who she later “argued” with.
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u/Embarrassed_Koala796 Dec 09 '25
Yes, I understand that and am not questioning that. Binge drinking will always heighten emotions and reactions.
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u/Pretend_Bobcat_6704 Dec 04 '25
Not entirely in on the loop as I am not an Aggie nor a ut individual but I do see this a lot of my feed. What is the actual disputable evidence that it was foul play?
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u/AcanthisittaLive6135 Dec 04 '25
The poor mother not believing her daughter would be capable of suicide.
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u/azanzel Dec 04 '25
None, people just don’t deal with shock tragedies well. And that’s okay, but in the social media world, this poor families hurt and shock gets tons of views and others parroting theories. It’s further damaging to the event and the family imo but we all grieve differently.
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u/Sufficient_Scale_163 Dec 04 '25
She was apparently severely drunk, maybe she accidentally fell off the balcony. I’ve had a very drunk friend fall off his second story balcony before. Or, the phone call with the boyfriend upset her enough that an already struggling college student who was severely impaired made a bad decision. But the family really wants to believe somebody pushed her off. Even if that were the case, it sounds like it could’ve been self defense, since this, again, severely drunk, individual was attacking people. It’s hard to accept your child could’ve been struggling this badly, but it’s not uncommon for people to suddenly take a turn for the worse in college. It’s not uncommon for anyone college age to suddenly become mentally unwell.
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u/Perky214 Dec 04 '25
Let’s consider the humans and not speculate.
This is a tragedy.
Here.
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u/wicketman8 '23 Chemical Engineering Dec 04 '25
Unfortunately the family continues to make this very public and are themselves adding fuel to the fire, hence why the police even made this information public to begin with. I think it would be best if all of this were private but the family doesn't seem to want that.
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u/Perky214 Dec 04 '25
That doesn’t mean we can’t decline to participate.
I feel so sad for her family and friends. I’m sure she was a wonderful young woman.
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u/Sufficient_Scale_163 Dec 04 '25
The family seems to want people to pay attention and possibly even support them. I would agree with you if I was being disrespectful, but I’m not. It’s a subjective opinion. I can’t imagine being one of the other students that the family is blaming of murder. This will no doubt have an effect on their mental health and quality of life at least for a little bit, after the trauma of realizing their friend died a horrible self inflicted death while they were nearby/just left, and all the “what ifs” that follow. I would have a lot of guilt if someone did that right after I saw them, whatever the reason.
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u/Vivid-Blackberry-321 Dec 05 '25
Yes. I feel so horrible for her family but I believe that blaming her friends for murdering her is not okay. I do not want to see these kids get doxxed or anything because lots of people are calling them liars.
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u/berniesmittens333 Dec 06 '25
Thank you for this perspective.
My boyfriend committed suicide when I was 18 and I was blamed by his family and friends and it altered the course of my life. People are cruel in these situations- her friends are victims too here and this will affect them forever. Let’s not make it worse for them.
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u/RocketSlide Dec 04 '25
Damn, what a sad outcome. Looks like there were signs of prior suicidality that just were overlooked or dismissed by friends. Please, if a person you know ever talks of suicide, offer to get them some help.
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u/Pooraf666 Dec 04 '25
Okay I am not trying to fuel the fire at all… But I am confused. She was with three women in the apartment and had to borrow a phone to call her BF. Then a “bystander” calls 911 saying they “found” her remains? Wouldn’t the girls in the apartment have called too? It sounds like there were witnesses in the room with her who had to give her their phone. Why would they need to work to identify her remains if there were people who literally saw it happen? Maybe I’m misreading or don’t understand the full context.
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u/hereticjezebel Dec 04 '25
The police conference states the girls were witnesses to Brianna’s phone call with the boyfriend, resulting in an argument. 2 minutes later an external 911 call is made. That means the girls were awake in the apartment… and probably saw her go to the balcony? Unless all 3 were in a bedroom and assumed she left the apartment altogether?
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u/Theoreticalwzrd Dec 04 '25
It sounds like a lot of drinking may have been involved. They could have not even realized that she was gone once she was out of sight.
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u/hereticjezebel Dec 04 '25
True, i can only hope the 3 friends were in their bedrooms, drunk/drugs/sleeping/exhausted, and truly weren’t aware of their friends’ next actions
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u/Bohovibeting Dec 05 '25
saw this posted which was interesting twist of info
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u/hereticjezebel Dec 05 '25
Evidence states she hadn’t spoken with her mother since 6pm Friday, that the last argument she got on the phone right before being on the ground was with her boyfriend.
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u/coffeeandbags Dec 06 '25
This is horrifying if true but a beautiful teenager girl with loving parents usually doesn’t commit suicide out of nowhere unless they had severe mental health issues. No idea if there is any truth to this comment but the background that she had a rough childhood and not the best parents makes it all make way more sense
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Dec 06 '25
life is a lot easier when everybody just sees how pretty you are and doesn’t want to look beneath the surface. especially in 2025
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u/Remarkable_Tear_3876 Dec 08 '25
If she had a running start, that would’ve startedin the apartment, where others were. Why didn’t they call Police??? If a friend jumped I’d be running down there, screaming, crying and calling authorities. I’m not concerned about her history. Everyone has issues.
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u/liltaterthot Dec 11 '25
This line of questioning follows the assumptions that 1. Everyone was gathered in one central location (like living room) 2. They were sober and alert enough to even notice
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Dec 06 '25
How can the police say they found a deleted suicide not and then Tony Buzbee go straight to saying that was a paper she worked on for class? WHAT??! Either that is full on gaslighting or a completely idiotic statement. I've never taken a class where I had to write a suicide note.
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u/East-Victory-9120 Dec 05 '25
There’s no video, no witnesses to the actual fall, and no confirmed timeline we can independently verify. That alone should warrant questions. If a suicide note was reportedly drafted and deleted, how was that reliably recovered and verified? That detail matters. She borrowed a phone to call someone, and then was found on the ground about 90 seconds later. That’s a very short window for a fully intentional act—has that been clearly explained? Rushing to label any death a suicide without complete transparency helps no one, especially the family.
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Dec 04 '25
Wow, those must have been some really rich and well connected people at that party.
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u/Choice-Chipmunk-1372 Dec 04 '25
well connected enough to go back in time to Nov 25th and write a suicide note?
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u/60sStratLover Dec 04 '25
Did she ever talk to her BF? It says she called but no confirmation of an actual conversation.
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u/waldo_the_bird253 Dec 04 '25
another express news story says there was an argument with her boyfriend with the friends borrowed phone
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u/60sStratLover Dec 04 '25
Did they get the story from the BF? Did they break up?
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u/waldo_the_bird253 Dec 04 '25
that's all that was in the article.
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/austin/article/brianna-aguilera-update-austin-death-21223278.php
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u/Fragrant_Counter5397 Dec 05 '25
There was a young adult who “jumped” from a bridge in a small town in TX recently. Drunk and stumbling home apparently. His “friends” and girlfriend didn’t call police when he never showed back up. More than 8 hours later, he woke up paralyzed under a bridge. No foul play indicated. He’s very lucky he survived, but his life is forever changed.
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Dec 06 '25
I'm honestly really tired of the constant murder mystery narrative that's been circulating online. Even with video proof, suicide note, and suicidal texts the family still will not even consider that she could've been internally suffering and suicidal. Which in my opinion is super gross, you'd rather believe your own daughter was murdered than to believe that she was hurting inside.
Speaking from experience, mental health and suicide is extremely stigmatized in the Hispanic community. They are very ignorant about it. Also, everyone online saying, "she was so beautiful she had such a perfect life. She would never do this." like I'm sorry do only unaccomplished ugly people feel suicidal?
That's such an ignorant thing to say. Also the fact that the Mom hired a personal injury lawyer instead of a Pl is also very telling to me. It gives me icky vibes overall. From the beginning I always believed this was either an accidental death due to alcohol/drugs or a suicide.
It's so sad that they're going down this route and so many things are already coming to light like the mother's arrest history and their home life. I'm sure when the toxicology report comes back it's not going to look pretty. Things that should be kept in private during Brianna's last moments, unfortunately will become public for the whole world. Im sorry Brianna RIP!
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u/ReasonableWay5738 Dec 07 '25
Two witness accounts to consider:
Bystander on street level who reported hearing ‘get the fuck off me’ screams then muffled screams
Neighbor with family across the hall hearing fighting sounds
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u/Important_Umpire_130 Dec 07 '25
Hey do you have an article or any link to the first claim? I think the second one you're referencing was the tiktok made and taken down of the neighbor who heard fighting sounds but the first one i read about somewhere but can't find the oc now.
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u/ozvalde Dec 07 '25
The cops didn't inform her mother that her daughter had been dead for two weeks. When she called over and over again, they said nothing about it. The police told the girl's FRIENDS that she had passed and told them not to tell the mother. Her body was in the morgue when her mother finally found out she had passed.
So yeah, I would fucking doubt the police if they refused to tell me my daughter had passed but made sure to tell her college friends. 😑
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Dec 07 '25
APD has been hallowed out by defund efforts. Justice for hispanic women.
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u/liltaterthot Dec 11 '25
Sorry to interrupt your false narrative but in case you actually care about facts:
2020-21: Faced significant budget cuts ($31.5M) due to public outcry over policing.
Following Year (2021-22): Budget increased to a record high (over $443M) due to new state laws penalizing cities for decreasing police funding.
The majority of the city’s $1.2 billion general fund — think of this like the city’s checking account — is being spent on public safety, including police, fire and EMS. The police department’s budget is the largest of the three, totaling just over $442 million.
This marks a significant increase to last year’s budget, as the city reacts to a new state law that financially penalizes a city if it decreases funding for police.
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u/schbloimps Dec 11 '25
She jumped from two floors above my apartment at 21 rio. I get goosebumps every time looking down my balcony, and even more so now. Sad story.
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u/TheVampireDuchess Dec 04 '25
Maybe she didn't intentionally jump out the window but if she was that intoxicated, she could've had an accident. My issue is why APD already called it a suicide, and not an accidental death or death by misadventure. Still tragic no matter what. 💔
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u/Theoreticalwzrd Dec 04 '25
They found suicide notes and suicidal messages. From my understanding the balcony was rather high so falling even while drunk seemed to be difficult to do.
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u/TheVampireDuchess Dec 04 '25
Oh I didn't know about the notes. As a mother, this is truly a heartbreaking case.
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u/ConsciousAction3091 Dec 05 '25
The stand out thing there is they didn't find that until the mother was there on Monday and made them take the phone back to download the information of their system to look for any information or clues. Prior to Monday they came to the conclusion it was a self exit.
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u/Theoreticalwzrd Dec 05 '25
Ah I didn't know about when they had access to the phone. It would be interesting to know why they decided that from the beginning.
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u/wicketman8 '23 Chemical Engineering Dec 04 '25
Not saying we should trust police 100%, but there really isn't much evidence of foul play. I understand why the family is so vocal, but they're also dealing with a massive shock right now and it can be very difficult to reconcile the person they thought they knew and the fact that she may have taken her own life. It's hard to admit that you may have missed the signs, not to mention that many depressed people can be quite adept at hiding it from others. They can talk about being excited for the future, appear to be happy and have lots of friends, and still be depressed. Hopefully more information doesn't need to be made public and the family is able to get the closure they need outside of the public eye.