Texas A&M cheerleader Brianna Aguilera wrote and deleted a suicide note on her phone days before her death, police said, as they ruled that she took her own life when she plunged 17 stories from an Austin apartment building.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrianna had made suicidal comments previously to friends, back in October of this year,\u201d Austin Police Detective Robert Marshall said at a news conference Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis continued through the evening of her death, with some self-harming actions early in the evening and a text message to another friend indicating the thought of suicide,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Texas A&M cheerleader Brianna Aguilera\u2019s death was ruled as suicide. Facebook \/ Stephanie Rodriguez<\/p>\n
Brianna Aguilera with mother Stephanie Rodriguez. Facebok \/ Stephanie Rodriguez<\/p>\n
Police were called to the apartment complex at 12:46 a.m. Saturday where they\u00a0found Aguilera\u2019s body<\/a>.<\/p>\n Cameras showed her arriving at the apartment complex just after 11 p.m. Friday and going to a 17th-floor apartment for a party following a Texas A&M vs UT tailgate, Marshall told the news conference.<\/p>\n At the tailgate, Aguilera \u201cbecame intoxicated to a point where she was asked to leave,\u201d Marshall said.<\/p>\n The video showed \u201ca large group of friends left that same apartment at 12:30 a.m. on Nov. 29, leaving just Brianna and three other girls in the apartment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Aguilera plunged 17 stories from an apartment building. Stephanie Rodriguez<\/p>\n She told friends she had lost her phone, and borrowed someone else\u2019s cell to call her boyfriend from 12:43 to 12:44 a.m., Marshall said.<\/p>\n Witnesses heard her argue with her boyfriend during the call just two minutes before the 911 call was made, Marshall said.<\/p>\n Aguilera\u2019s mom,\u00a0Stephanie Rodriguez, has dismissed cops\u2019 version<\/a>\u00a0of events, insisting that her daughter wasn\u2019t suicidal.<\/p>\n \u201cSome self-harming actions early in the evening and a text message to another friend indicating the thought of suicide,\u201d Austin Police Detective Robert Marshall said. GoFundMe<\/p>\n \u201cPlease don\u2019t believe this lazy investigator and investigation!\u201d she\u00a0wrote in a Facebook post<\/a>\u00a0sharing a video of Thursday\u2019s press conference.<\/p>\n She previously said that her\u00a0daughter\u2019s phone was on Do Not Disturb<\/a>\u00a0on the night of her death, and that her teen knew to leave her cell alerts on when she went out.\u00a0<\/p>\n The phone was later discovered by a creek, where it had been left since 6:30 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n Police have said they won\u2019t investigate the death as a homicide.<\/p>\n Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis. News 4 San Antonio<\/p>\n \u201cI understand how grief and the need for answers can raise intense emotions and many questions. But sometimes the truth doesn\u2019t provide the answers we are hoping for, and that is this case,\u201d Austin Police Chief Lisa Davis said at the same news conference, adding that her \u201cheart aches\u201d for Aguilera\u2019s parents.<\/p>\n \u201cI have three daughters and a son, and I cannot begin to imagine the pain,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Rodriguez has hired major Texas attorney Tony Buzbee to investigate her daughter\u2019s death.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Buzbee, who represented more than 150 alleged victims of Sean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs, confirmed he had been hired by Aguilera\u2019s parents in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n \u201cThey feel certain this was not an accident. This was certainly not a suicide. The family deserves straight answers. We hope we can help them get those answers,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n Buzbee said his office will hold a press conference in Houston on Friday to discuss the case in depth.If you are struggling with suicidal thoughts or are experiencing a mental health crisis and live in New York City, you can call 888-NYC-WELL for free and confidential crisis counseling. If you live outside the five boroughs, you can dial 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline or go to\u00a0SuicidePreventionLifeline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas A&M cheerleader Brianna Aguilera wrote and deleted a suicide note on her phone days before her death,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11915,863,10912,12023,27,3042,29,28,734],"class_list":["post-76152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-cheerleaders","tag-colleges-and-universities","tag-deaths","tag-investigations","tag-texas","tag-texas-am","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76152","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=76152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}