>> What we know about Texas A&M student Brianna Aguilera\u2019s death in Austin<\/a><\/p>\nAustin police officers suspect that Aguilera died by suicide. However, in a joint news conference with Gamez Law Firm and Aguilera\u2019s mother, Buzbee argued APD does not have the authority to rule a cause of death. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t close a case before you even have the cause of death from the medical examiner,\u201d Buzbee said. \u201cPeriod, full stop. You don\u2019t have that right, you don\u2019t have that authority.\u201d<\/p>\n
Buzbee said he plans to send a formal request to Gov. Greg Abbott asking for the Texas Rangers to investigate Aguilera\u2019s death. <\/p>\n
“I\u2019m going to submit a detailed packet to the governor\u2019s office and ultimately to the Texas Rangers to actually do an investigation to figure out what actually happened, because we still don\u2019t know,” Buzbee said. <\/p>\n
On Thursday, Austin police said Aguilera had written a suicide note that was addressed to specific people in her life. It was allegedly found in a deleted folder by police officers amid the investigation. <\/p>\n
Buzbee suggested that the alleged suicide note, which he referred to as an \u201cessay,\u201d was nonsense in APD\u2019s investigation. <\/p>\n
\u201cThen he (the detective) gets into her phone, and he sees an essay that she wrote, and he calls it a suicide note. She took creative writing the semester before,\u201d Buzbee said. \u201cWe\u2019ll never know what the purpose of what she wrote and deleted. But this is the suggestion, was that she left a \u2018suicide note,\u2019 total malarkey. Total malarkey.\u201d<\/p>\n
Buzbee does not believe there\u2019s some conspiracy in Aguilera\u2019s death. He stood behind the belief that the detective in the case was incompetent and lazy. <\/p>\n
He also pointed out several apparent holes in the Austin Police Department\u2019s investigation, including an alleged fight between Aguilera and another female at a tailgate. Buzbee said the same female was in the apartment unit where Aguilera later fell from the balcony. <\/p>\n
Buzbee also stated that around the time of Aguilera\u2019s death, there was a person who posted a TikTok video about an altercation at the apartment. There was fighting, screaming and somebody yelling \u201cget off me\u201d in the video, Buzbee said. <\/p>\n
According to Buzbee and Aguilera\u2019s mother, Stephanie Rodriguez, the Austin Police Department did not conduct a thorough investigation. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy daughter was not suicidal. I know my daughter better than anyone,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cWe spoke every day. I spoke to her on the 25th, the 26th, and the 27th, even the morning of the 28th. She was not suicidal.\u201d<\/p>\n
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