agracer said:

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El Gallo Blanco said:

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Ag13 said:

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That APD statement makes me extremely sad.

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Yep, crushing. I have been hoping there was at least some type of physical fight or foulplay responsible, and that there would be clear resolution and someone would be brought to justice.

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So two lives are destroyed instead of one?

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I was hoping she didn't kill herself. Mostly as a father of a girl and putting myself in her mother's shoes. Anything but that. It makes it way sadder to me even from a distance as well. To see someone so young and attractive willing to leap out of a high rise while on a trip with friends. Hurts to think about and hard to process

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There is also that last call to the boyfriend -- unless he told her to do it `or I don't care if you do' which is nuts to even think -- what you may likely learn is something horrifying is they had an apparently short argument, and she either threatened or just did it aftreward and he will be able to say what the tone was.

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Without knowing anything about their relationship, I could see a guy saying something like that because he is done with drama and doesn't believe she would do it.

agracer said:

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El Gallo Blanco said:

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Ag13 said:

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That APD statement makes me extremely sad.

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Yep, crushing. I have been hoping there was at least some type of physical fight or foulplay responsible, and that there would be clear resolution and someone would be brought to justice.

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So two lives are destroyed instead of one?

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Humans desire meaning and purpose behind events, even if horrifying. Knowing your child was intentionally targeted and killed and that there is someone to then hold to account is somehow "better" in our minds than a random accident or suicide, because then your child died in either a completely meaningless and indifferent way or worse maybe you could have even prevented it.

Texag5324 said:

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Heisenberg01 said:

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Heisenberg01 said:

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JobSecurity said:

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Since we're all guessing I'll take a stab.

Borrows friends phone after the rest of the group leaves to go back out for the night. She talks to her boyfriend about whatever on the phone and they're arguing. She's presumably still obligated from the tailgate. Gets off the phone upset and hands it back to her friend. Climbs up on the railing or onto a table and the friend freaks out and starts screaming at her. Friend tries to grab her to stop her so she's yelling to get off her as someone else heard. Friend loses the battle and she goes over.

Nothing malicious from anyone involved but everything matches the reports.

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Then why did the friends claim they were asleep? Why didn't the friend call 9-1-1?

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And why do you appear to so badly want it to be something other than a suicide?

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If could very well have been a suicide. However, the APD's has appeared to jump to a conclusion in the first few hours without any real investigation. As a parent, I think the police owe it to the family to fully investigate all possibilities prior to closing case files, having a press conference, and hanging the "Mission Accomplished" banner.

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The APD said they have the video from the apartment. Wouldnt that mean they could also see her fall from the balcony? They never came out and said that specifically but that is my guess.

Although it appears as if they are labeling it a suicide because she wrote a suicide note a few days before dying, made suicidal comments to friends the day she died, and was self harming herself the day she died. Im willing to bet the cops have text records of her texting suicidal comments to friends the day she passed away.

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They said they had security video of the different groups entering and exiting the room. I have not heard them say they have footage of the fall from the balcony. I could have missed them say that.

This story still has me twisted up with sadness.

I am praying daily for the family. Just an unimaginable tragedy.

Has the boyfriend been interviewed? Are the three women who were with her in the room willing to take a lie detector test?

Heisenberg01 said:

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Texag5324 said:

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Heisenberg01 said:

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Rapier108 said:

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Heisenberg01 said:

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JobSecurity said:

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Since we're all guessing I'll take a stab.

Borrows friends phone after the rest of the group leaves to go back out for the night. She talks to her boyfriend about whatever on the phone and they're arguing. She's presumably still obligated from the tailgate. Gets off the phone upset and hands it back to her friend. Climbs up on the railing or onto a table and the friend freaks out and starts screaming at her. Friend tries to grab her to stop her so she's yelling to get off her as someone else heard. Friend loses the battle and she goes over.

Nothing malicious from anyone involved but everything matches the reports.

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Then why did the friends claim they were asleep? Why didn't the friend call 9-1-1?

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And why do you appear to so badly want it to be something other than a suicide?

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If could very well have been a suicide. However, the APD's has appeared to jump to a conclusion in the first few hours without any real investigation. As a parent, I think the police owe it to the family to fully investigate all possibilities prior to closing case files, having a press conference, and hanging the "Mission Accomplished" banner.

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The APD said they have the video from the apartment. Wouldnt that mean they could also see her fall from the balcony? They never came out and said that specifically but that is my guess.

Although it appears as if they are labeling it a suicide because she wrote a suicide note a few days before dying, made suicidal comments to friends the day she died, and was self harming herself the day she died. Im willing to bet the cops have text records of her texting suicidal comments to friends the day she passed away.

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They said they had security video of the different groups entering and exiting the room. I have not heard them say they have footage of the fall from the balcony. I could have missed them say that.

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It isn't uncommon for buildings to have security cameras set-up to surveil their exteriors. It is completely understandable that the cops wouldn't say if such cameras recorded her fall, particularly if the time or location was already known.

I'm pretty sure the investigation turned up a whole lot of stuff they aren't telling us.

Suicides are tough on everyone. Those who knew them are forever wondering what they didn't do to prevent it. Of course, that is only after firmly believing that the victim could never have done it. The truth is hard to accept.

IMHO, Buzbee is out of line. This type of behavior is (one) reason (some) lawyers have bad reps. At best, Ms. Rodriguez will get some money. It won't be nearly enough or even help anything. My heart goes out for her and family. It will take time, but it will always hurt.

We likely will never hear any more about this after next week.

Gabster43213 said:

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Has the boyfriend been interviewed? Are the three women who were with her in the room willing to take a lie detector test?

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APD says all of the kids have cooperated

If she jumped as APD is saying, is it not standard investigative practice to determine what floor and apartment the deceased jumped from?

I can't imagine it being standard practice to just say the person jumped and we will figure out where she jumped from at a later time.

Watermelon Man said:

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IMHO, Buzbee is out of line. This type of behavior is (one) reason (some) lawyers have bad reps. At best, Ms. Rodriguez will get some money. It won't be nearly enough or even help anything. My heart goes out for her and family. It will take time, but it will always hurt.

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Money from whom?

Regarding the phone purse and mind set of the deceased.

"'A further review of Brianna's phone shows a deleted digital suicide note dated Tuesday, November 25 of this year, which was written to specific people in her life,' Austin Police Detective Robert Marshall stated at a press conference Thursday morning.

'From the moment this call originated up until now, between all the witness statements, all of the video evidence, and all of the digital evidence collected, at no time did any evidence point to this being anything of a criminal nature.

'Rather, our investigation has revealed that unfortunately, Brianna had made suicidal comments previously to friends back in October of this year. This continued through the evening of her death, with some self-harming actions earlier in the evening and a text message to another friend indicating the thought of suicide.'


"Marshall stated Aguilera was so drunk the night of her death that she had been asked to leave a tailgate at the Austin Rugby Club around 10pm.

'The only evidence that we have of any kind of physical altercation was Brianna punching one of her friends as they tried to help her out of the party,' the investigator confirmed.

'Witnesses stated that after Brianna was asked to leave the tailgate, she had repeatedly dropped her phone and staggered into a nearby wooded area where her phone and other items were later located by Austin police.'"

Feels like she may have been crying out for attention for awhile. I wouldn't be shocked if she was blacked out, called her bf to get attention, didn't get what she was expecting, and reacted by doing something she wouldn't have done sober.

The whole insinuation that the phone purse etc were planted after the fact doesn't line up with the facts. Mltiple people at the tail gate have admitted she was unruly and that she was asked to leave and that she kept dropping her cell phone etc due to her state of intoxication. After a couple drops, it wasn't their problem or her friends.

Sounds like she was running from life and it caught up with her and she didn't know what to do and reacted in an intoxicated State of mind that she probs wouldn't have done sober.

So sad but it sounds like the parents don't want to accept the facts. Understandably hard.

El Gallo Blanco said:

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agracer said:

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El Gallo Blanco said:

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Ag13 said:

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That APD statement makes me extremely sad.

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Yep, crushing. I have been hoping there was at least some type of physical fight or foulplay responsible, and that there would be clear resolution and someone would be brought to justice.

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So two lives are destroyed instead of one?

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I was hoping she didn't kill herself. Mostly as a father of a girl and putting myself in her mother's shoes. Anything but that. It makes it way sadder to me even from a distance as well. To see someone so young and attractive willing to leap out of a high rise while on a trip with friends. Hurts to think about and hard to process

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Sometimes the one closest to their loved one is not aware of what is happening. Childern keep things from their parents, mostly to spare their parents from endless worry. Parents get to know your children's friends let the friends know that you are there for their childern and that you can be trusted.