AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 WARNING: This story may contain information that is not suitable for all audiences and has themes of suicide and self-harm. Call 988 if you or someone you know is struggling with mental health or thoughts of suicide.<\/p>\n
The death of Brianna Aguilera, a 19-year-old Texas A&M University student from Laredo, has been ruled a suicide, the Travis County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office confirmed Friday. <\/p>\n
Authorities said Aguilera died after falling from a high-rise apartment in West Campus near downtown Austin in the early morning hours of Nov. 29, 2025<\/a> \u2014 several hours after the conclusion of the Texas-Texas A&M rivalry football game at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. <\/p>\n According to Austin police, witnesses heard Aguilera arguing on the phone with an out-of-town boyfriend. A bystander later heard a thud near the complex and called 911 after finding the teen on the ground. Officers said they found a suicide note and other evidence indicating self-harm amid their investigation into Aguilera\u2019s death. <\/p>\n Last month, Aguilera\u2019s family \u2014 along with Houston-area attorney Tony Buzbee and the San Antonio-based Gamez Law Firm \u2014 filed a lawsuit<\/a> against the Austin Blacks Rugby Club and the UT Latin Economics and Business Association. <\/p>\n The suit alleges that the two organizations served alcohol to Aguilera, who was younger than 21. Even though the lawsuit states Aguilera was \u201cnoticeably intoxicated\u201d at a tailgate at the rugby club\u2019s facility, the suit accused the defendants of continuing to serve her alcohol.<\/p>\n In a Friday statement to KTBC-TV in Austin, Buzbee criticized the medical examiner\u2019s office report, calling it \u201cflawed.\u201d He also described the Austin police investigation as \u201cshoddy work.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cThe Austin Police Department\u2019s \u2018investigation\u2019 fell woefully short,\u201d Buzbee said, in part. \u201cBrianna deserved better. Her family deserves better.\u201d <\/p>\n On Feb. 3, Texas A&M honored Aguilera in its monthly Silver Taps ceremony<\/a> alongside other Aggie students who have died recently. <\/p>\n If you or someone you know <\/a>is struggling with mental health or thoughts of suicide, call 988 or text TALK to 741-741.<\/p>\n You can also reach out to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention<\/a> (AFSP) or the National Alliance of Mental Illness<\/a> (NAMI) at 210-223-7233 (SAFE) or 800-316-9241. You can also text NAMI to 741-741.<\/p>\n More recent coverage of this story on KSAT: <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by KSAT – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2013 WARNING: This story may contain information that is not suitable for all audiences and has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[132,36156,7686,1932,27,29,28,32558,394],"class_list":["post-163628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-austin","tag-brianna-aguilera","tag-laredo","tag-lawsuit","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tony-buzbee","tag-travis-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}