The family of Texas A&M student Brianna Aguilera has insisted her death at a college tailgate was not a suicide – and they claim new evidence, including a video, will prove it.
Aguilera, a 19-year-old sophomore, fell 17 stories from a high-rise apartment in Austin after attending the football game against arch rival University of Texas on November 28, according to police.
Investigators claim they found evidence that the aspiring lawyer wrote a suicide note and spoke about ending her life with friends in the hours before she died, police said Thursday.
But at a press conference Friday, the family’s high profile attorney, Tony Buzbee, said the autopsy and toxicology report are not yet complete – he blasted Austin police for ruling her death a suicide.
‘The Austin Police Department formed a conclusion within hours of this tragedy that [it] was a suicide without any investigation,’ Buzbee told reporters.
‘Do you realize that the autopsy has not been completed? The medical examiner’s office told us that it will not be completed for 60 to 90 days, yet you had the so-called lead detective in front of millions of people saying that he had concluded that this was a suicide. Now how unprofessional is that?’
Buzbee added that Aguilera’s parents asked for toxicology testing and a rape kit to be included in the autopsy report.
Aguilera’s mother, Stephanie Rodriguez, does not believe her daughter would have died by suicide, and instead thinks someone must have pushed her over the railing.
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