Medical examiner determines Texas A&M student's manner of death as family attorney disputes finding: 'Flawed'

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The Travis County Medical Examiner has determined Texas A&M pupil Brianna Aguilera died by termination aft falling from an Austin high-rise successful November, a ruling that aligns with constabulary findings but is being forcefully challenged by the teen’s family, whose lawyer called the decision "flawed."

Aguilera, 19, died aft falling from a high-rise flat pursuing a Texas A&M vs. University of Texas shot tailgate astatine astir 1 a.m. connected Nov. 29, according to police.

"Austin Police (APD) is alert that the Travis County Medical Examiner's Office has concluded its last autopsy study regarding the decease of Brianna Aguilera and ruled it a suicide," authorities wrote successful a connection to affiliate FOX 7 Austin. "The probe remains open, and until it is closed, Austin Police volition not beryllium providing immoderate further information."

Attorneys representing Aguilera's household antecedently claimed she was killed, contempt the find of an alleged termination enactment and suicidal texts to her friends connected the nighttime of her death.

Image provided by the household of Texas A&M student, Brianna Aguilera, recovered dormant successful Austin successful November. (GoFundMe)

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Following the merchandise of the aesculapian examiner's findings, Tony Buzbee, the lawyer for Aguilera's family, issued a connection criticizing the investigation.

"Since Brianna Aguilera tragically mislaid her life, determination has been an overwhelming magnitude of emotion and enactment for Brianna and her family. There has besides been an overwhelming magnitude of disapproval concerning the authorities for their handling of the probe surrounding her death," Buzbee wrote successful the statement, obtained by FOX 7. "Specifically, the Austin Police Department, without a morganatic investigation, rapidly concluded that Brianna’s decease was a suicide. This effort was acold from what’s expected of instrumentality enforcement."

Brianna Aguilera died aft falling from a high-rise flat Nov. 29. (INSTAGRAM/brie.aguilera)

"As an example, the Austin Police Department and those progressive successful the probe failed to reappraisal telephone records of Brianna and those instantly connected to her oregon those astatine the scene," helium continued. "They failed to interrogation each witnesses, failed to instrumentality statements nether oath, failed to enactment unneurotic an close timeline, failed to unafraid video footage, and astir importantly, failed to travel done and interrogation witnesses, adjacent the ones that we identified for them.

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Buzbee described the aesculapian examiner's ruling arsenic "expected," alleging the uncovering was "made successful ample portion based connected the shoddy enactment of the Austin Police Department."

"To beryllium clear. The Austin Police Department’s ‘investigation’ fell woefully short," helium wrote. "Brianna deserved better. Her household deserves better."

The Buzbee Law Firm filed a suit Jan. 5 relating to Aguilera's death.

Brianna Aguilera was recovered dormant hours aft attending a tailgate party. (Facebook/Brie Aguilera)

Attorneys said the ineligible enactment volition let them to enactment witnesses nether oath, subpoena records and compel practice of imaginable witnesses. 

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"We volition bash what the constabulary and different authorities person failed to do," Buzbee wrote. "We volition execute a implicit and thorough probe and get the answers that Brianna and her household deserves. The aesculapian examiner’s flawed decision changes nothing."