Witnesses allegedly claimed to have heard a chilling cry from someone in the area where Texas A&M sophomore Brianna Aguilera was found dead after a tailgate event.
According to a report from the New York Post, Texas attorney Tony Buzbee said two witnesses who were in the area where the 19-year-old cheerleader died. Both heard fighting around the same time as her death, telling authorities they heard an individual yell, “Get off me!” just moments before the young student died.
Aguilera was found dead on Friday, November 28, at a student apartment complex near the University of Texas, after the football game between Texas A&M and the Longhorns.
Buzbee’s first alleged witness is a man who claims he was down the street from the apartment complex.
“[He heard], “Get off of me!” — and screaming, and then a muffled cry between 12:30 and 1 a.m. next to the apartment,” Buzbee said at a press conference on Friday, December 5.
The second witness was reportedly across the hall at the time of the student’s death.
“Another witness could hear running back and forth and screaming,” Buzbee said.
The Austin Police Department announced on Thursday, December 4, that Aguilera’s official cause of death was suicide.
“In every investigation, we have to rely on the evidence, and all evidence in this case is indicative of suicide,” Sgt. Nathan Sexton said in a press conference.
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Sexton also said investigators found a “deleted digital suicide note” on Aguilera’s phone, “which was written to specific people in her life.”
But Buzbee claimed Austin police did not talk to either of the witnesses and instead just jumped to the conclusion of death by suicide.
Buzbee argued the alleged suicide note was actually an essay she wrote days before her death.
“[The lead investigator] sees an essay on her phone and he calls it a suicide note,” Buzbee said. “She wrote an essay on the 25th that she deleted — and then she goes and kills herself four days later? It’s really ridiculous.”
He added, “It’s total baloney that they’re trying to sell you.”
Aguilera’s mom, Stephanie Rodriguez, said in the same press conference on Friday that her daughter “was not suicidal” and that she spoke to her every day.
She called for Austin Police to reopen the investigation into her daughter’s death.
The mother of Texas A&M sophomore Brianna Aguilera believes foul play was the cause of her daughter’s death. In an interview with People published on Tuesday, December 2, Stephanie Rodriguez said she “disagrees” with Austin Police Department determining that there “are no indications of suspicious circumstances” regarding the November 29 death of Aguilera at the […]
“I can offer with you (Austin Police Department) being annoyed each time I called or tried to talk to you,” Rodriguez said. “I can offer with how arrogantly you talk down to us each time we talked. I can offer with you telling my daughter’s friends not to talk to me like I am some sort of criminal. But I cannot offer with you doing a news conference and saying false things about my child.”
She continued, “Without a thorough investigation, I cannot offer with you jumping to conclusions and not performing an actual investigation. I cannot offer with your failure to do your job, do your job.”
Rodriguez spoke to People on Tuesday, December 2, discussing the moment that police told her about the result of their investigation.
“And that’s when it made me very upset because I was like, my daughter wasn’t suicidal,” Rodriguez told People. “I would know. She’s not suicidal. Why would she be? She was living her best life. She loved life. I mean, she loved going to school. She wanted to become a lawyer.”
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