TX - Texas A&M student dies hours after football tailgate, family questions possible suicide ruling - Austin, 29 Nov 2025

[LAborn]

12/12/25

Mother of Texas A&M Student Requesting Second Autopsy, Demanding New Detective: 'My Daughter Is Not Suicidal' (Exclusive)

Stephanie Rodriguez, the mother of late Texas A&M student Brianna Marie Aguilera, tells PEOPLE she is requesting a second autopsy on her daughter's body and demanding the Austin Police assign a new detective to the case. She is insisting her daughter 'was not suicidal,' despite local police...

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It's really disturbing that the mother says "my daughter wasn't suicidal" when there are witnesses to it. Not accepting a child's mental illness as real can certainly add to their downfall.

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008672305216368856

 

[Quill]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2008672305216368856

I'm glad to see this beginning to come out. Hopefully soon someone will crack and spill the beans about what the argument was about.

 

[Spectrix]

According to police, moments before she went off the balcony, Ms Aguilera was having an argument with her boyfriend over the phone. Was she screaming at him? I wonder if that is what neighbours heard?

I mean the alternative (and perhaps the narrative that the family chooses to believe), is that one of her friends somehow threw her off the balcony. In that case, which friend was it, and what possible motive was there?

 

[Quill]

The witness that has come forward with new info stated hearing an argument between multiple people. That doesn't sound like a one-sided phone conversation. It also calls into to question the timeline that the other girls she was staying with gave to police.

 

[Seattle1]

1/9/26

New Witness in Brianna Aguilera’s Death | Vinnie Politan Investigates​

Excellent follow-up with a 'real witness' by Vinnie, and the details are cruel!

Let's hope the family will use the subpoena power from their civil suit to force answers from those inside the apartment--last to see the victim, who were instructed by LE NOT to talk to the victim's mother. #JusticeforBrianna

 

[Seattle1]

According to police, moments before she went off the balcony, Ms Aguilera was having an argument with her boyfriend over the phone. Was she screaming at him? I wonder if that is what neighbours heard?

I mean the alternative (and perhaps the narrative that the family chooses to believe), is that one of her friends somehow threw her off the balcony. In that case, which friend was it, and what possible motive was there?

Using phone records, LE alleged Brianna called her boyfriend between 12:43-12:44 AM on 11/29/25, using the phone of a friend staying in the apartment, because Brianna lost her own phone earlier in the day.

However, according to the latest reporting by Vinnie, that late night call to the boyfriend's phone number may NOT have been by Brianna! Seems he claims he last talked to the victim around 9 PM.

This circles back to the question the family had been asking from day one: how did Brianna access the phone to make the outgoing call at 12:43 AM from the alleged "sleeping friend," and how did she return the phone to the same friend who claimed to be dead asleep?

Seems to me the girls inside the apartment needed to be "dead asleep" at 12:45 AM to justify why their first call to 911 to report Brianna missing wasn't until 12:14 PM (or 12 hours after her body had been reported found dead on the sidewalk outside the apartment).

And why Police did not think this was suspicious, given there was a loud party happening inside this apartment 10+ minutes earlier? Yeah, do your damn job APD! MOO

 

[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2013357526931128555

 

[Quill]

No matter how you slice this, the APD has still not done an investigation. They have lost the opportunity to determine if there was a possible crime scene or scene of struggle in the apartment. Dotting the i's and crossing the t's could have saved them the scrutiny if their original assessment turns out to correct, though I highly doubt that it is. JMO.

The boyfriend and the neighbor coming forward is casting doubt on the "roommates" stories. Keep in mind, these girls were not MA's roommates as she did not live in Austin. As I understand it, one of the girls who lived in the apartment was a friend of MA's. Quite often students will go to a road game and stay with friends who go to the opposing school in that town. Sometimes they may not be close friends and may even just be friends of friends. I wonder how well MA actually knew these girls.

 

[Pseudonymph]

Just reading through this thread and I feel the need to point out something that many people don't know--many suicides, especially in the young and substance-impaired, are the result of sudden impulses. That doesn't mean there wasn't a tendency toward it already, as shown by her comments and the deleted note, but based on the evidence this particular event wasn't planned. Her decision-making skills would have been significantly affected by intoxication, and by all accounts she was upset, and that's all you need for a sudden fatal decision.

 

[Quill]

Just reading through this thread and I feel the need to point out something that many people don't know--many suicides, especially in the young and substance-impaired, are the result of sudden impulses. That doesn't mean there wasn't a tendency toward it already, as shown by her comments and the deleted note, but based on the evidence this particular event wasn't planned. Her decision-making skills would have been significantly affected by intoxication, and by all accounts she was upset, and that's all you need for a sudden fatal decision.

While all that you have said is so, so true, there are far too many discrepancies and timelines that do not match up in this case for it to be so swiftly and decisively determined to be suicide.