Texas A&M student’s family files lawsuit over death

ex’s parents Texas A&M University student Brianna Aguilera They filed a wrongful death lawsuit against two organizations in Austin, Texas, after their 19-year-old daughter died on November 29.

Stephanie Rodriguez and Manuel Aguilera is seeking $1 million in damages from the Austin Black Rugby Club and the University of Texas Latin Business and Economics Association, saying they don’t believe Brianna’s death was a suicideThis is despite investigators’ ruling on December 4.

“We are more confident today than we were 30 days ago that this was not a suicide as police claimed,” Tony Buzbee“This was either an accident or something more sinister,” the family’s attorney said at a press conference on Tuesday, January 6.

Brianna died earlier that night after attending a tailgate party after the Aggies’ football game against the University of Texas. The party was hosted by the University of Texas Latino Economics and Business Association and held at the Austin Black Football Club facility.

Buzbee, 57, believes the police timeline that night did not add up to the facts. Police concluded that between 12:43 and 12:44 a.m., Brianna borrowed a cell phone to call her boyfriend and the two got into an argument. She then went to return the phone to her friend in the apartment. Two minutes later, a bystander called 9-1-1 and discovered Brianna’s body.

“What the police told us was physically impossible,” Buzbee said, arguing that Brianna last spoke to her boyfriend at 9:44 p.m. that night.

Buzbee also introduces neighbors Dana RodriguezDuring the press conference, he was housed across the hall from where the party was taking place. She revealed that police did not interview her or take a statement.

“The only email I received from the Austin Police Department was a general email sent to all residents of the 21 Rio apartment complex,” she said. “I hope they hear this statement and understand that I am willing to cooperate with this investigation.”

Dana added that she tried to go to bed while the party continued next door, but the noise from one room obvious argument Make things difficult. Her father, who was also present, told her he thought the noise was coming from a neighbor’s balcony.

Soon after, Dana said she heard “someone screaming when you accidentally drop something.”

“I don’t believe police were ever in the apartment during this investigation,” she said, referring to the apartment where the party was held. “My parents would have informed me. I would have known, I could hear footsteps and everything in the apartment. The walls were so thin.”

Investigators insisted in December that all available evidence pointed to suicide.

“In all the eyewitness testimony, all the video evidence and all the digital evidence that was collected, there is nothing to indicate that this was anything of a criminal nature,” the chief homicide detective said. Robert Marshall said at a press conference. “Instead, our investigation revealed that, unfortunately, Brianna had made suicidal comments to friends as early as October of this year. This continued into the night of her death, and earlier that night she had engaged in some self-harming behavior and sent a text message to another friend indicating that she was having suicidal thoughts.”

Brianna’s family has This concept has long been controversial Their daughter was suicidal.

“I felt really depressed at that point because I thought, my daughter is not suicidal,” Stephanie told people December. “I would know. She wasn’t suicidal. Why would she kill herself? She was living her best life. She loved life. I mean, she loved school. She wanted to be a lawyer. I mean, that’s just my opinion, you wouldn’t say that.”

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