A Texas A&M Student Was Found Dead After A College Tailgate. Her Mother Is Demanding Answers.
Brianna Aguilera, a 19-year-old Texas A&M student from Laredo, was found dead outside an apartment complex on Saturday at 12:47 a.m., after attending a Texas A&M vs. UT tailgate in Austin. Police say she was pronounced dead on the scene, with “no indications of suspicious circumstances.”
But Stephanie Rodriguez, Brianna’s mother, insists there is far more to the story.
“This was not accidental someone killed my brie,” Rodriguez wrote in a Facebook post. “My daughter would not jump 17 stories from a building and to be labeling this as a suicide is insane.”
“My daughter loved life and was excited to graduate and pursue her career in Law,” she added.
The Austin Police Department said in a statement, “At this time, the incident is not being investigated as a homicide, and there are no indications of suspicious circumstances.”
However, the details surrounding Aguilera’s death are not adding up for Rodriguez, and she believes foul play was involved.
For starters, Rodriguez said she had been trying to contact the police department for several hours before getting the call at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday that her daughter was in the morgue and had been identified through fingerprint analysis.
“No one reached out to me, I was the one who had to place several calls to Austin PD because I couldn’t locate her,” Rodriguez said, adding that she was told she could not file a missing person’s report because it hadn’t been 24 hours.
Rodriguez’s concern for her daughter started when Aguilera’s phone went on Do Not Disturb around 6:00 p.m. on Friday, which she says was “weird.”
“We always had this rule that if she was going to go out, she had to have her phone on ‘location on’ and answer her text[s] to at least let me know she was OK,” Rodriguez told KGNS.
What makes this case particularly intriguing is that Aguilera’s phone was later found in a friend’s purse by a creek, the location where Rodriguez initially told the police it was “pinging.”
Rodriguez also told KSAT that Aguilera had been fighting with another student earlier that day, saying that she even provided text messages to the detectives. She said there were around 15 people in the apartment, but it was a bystander who stumbled upon the body.
In her Facebook post, Rodriguez addressed those she believes are involved, “… all the group of friends [had] a lot of time to come up with the same story … How is it that certain friends left immediately and the person who was living at the apartment complex vacated her apartment ASAP.”
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A GoFundMe set up by Aguilera’s family echoes the continuing confusion regarding the case: “The details surrounding what happened next remain unclear, and her mother is still awaiting answers.”
While the case is not being investigated as a homicide, the investigation is ongoing, and the police are waiting on an official cause of death from the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office.
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