Austin police revealed new evidence Dec. 4 in the death investigation of 19-year-old Brianna Aguilera, who was found dead after a University of Texas and Texas A&M tailgate Nov. 28.

During a press conference, investigators detailed evidence gathered after Aguilera’s mother returned her phone to police. Austin police maintain their initial belief that Aguilera took her own life.

Lead investigator Robert Marshall said analysis of the phone data revealed significant findings.

“A further review of Brianna’s phone shows a deleted digital suicide note dated Tuesday November 25th of this year which was written just to specific people in her life,” Marshall said.

Marshall said the investigation revealed Aguilera had made suicidal comments to friends in October, continuing through the evening of her death with self-harming actions and a text message to another friend indicating thoughts of suicide.

Aguilera’s family said they do not believe their daughter’s death was a suicide. The family has retained the Buzbee Law Firm and Gamez Law Firm for assistance.

Austin police provided a timeline of events between November 28 and 29. Marshall said witnesses told investigators that Aguilera arrived at the tailgate between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. Friday, November 28. Witnesses described seeing her “highly intoxicated.”

“Witnesses stated that after Brianna was asked to leave the tailgate, she had repeatedly dropped her phone, and staggered to a nearby wooded area, where her phone and other items were located by Austin Police,” Marshall said.

Attorney Tony Buzbee said the Austin Police Department’s handling of the matter creates more questions than it provides answers.

A press conference is scheduled for 1 p.m. Dec. 5 at the law firm’s Houston office to release details. The lawyers said Aguilera’s parents may speak at the conference.

Authorities have revealed a critical piece of evidence in the death of Texas A&M student Brianna Aguilera, after she fell 17 stories from a high-rise apartment after a tailgate.

Investigators say they have evidence that the college student, 19, wrote a suicide note and had talked about ending her life with friends, including hours before she died, police revealed Thursday.

Aguilera had traveled from College Station, Texas, to the capital city for the November 28 football face-off between the Lone Star state football foes.

In the days since her death, Aguilera’s mother has unleashed a wave of criticism at the Austin Police Department, accusing the cops of not investigating ‘suspicious’ circumstances around her daughter’s death.

Stephanie Rodriguez insists her daughter would never kill herself and someone must have pushed her over the rails.

‘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.’

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Brianna Aguilera, 19, was found dead at 2101 Rio Grande Street around 1am Saturday, hours after a tailgating bash

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Aguilera’s family refused to accept the Austin Police Department’s finding that their daughter’s death is a suicide. In a statement, her parents said ‘As far as we concerned, this is an open investigation’

Investigators shared a timeline of Friday evening into early Saturday morning, which were the hours leading up to Aguilera’s death.

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.’

Surveillance cameras from the 21 Rio Apartments in Austin captured the co-ed arriving at the high-rise with a large group of friends around 11pm.

At 12.14am, Aguilera’s friends made a 911 call, stating that she was missing.

Marshall later explained that since so many of their friends were in town for the game, the people in the apartment assumed Aguilera had gone out with other friends without letting them know.

Most of the people in the apartment left around 12.30am, police shared, however Aguilera and three other women were still there.

Despite losing her phone at the tailgate, Aguilera called her boyfriend – who was not in Austin- around 12.43am, after borrowing a phone from a friend, police added.

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Aguilera was an aspiring lawyer who was studying as an undergrad student at Texas A&M in College Station, Texas

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Police do not consider Aguilera’s death suspicious and it is not being probed as a homicide

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Rodriguez told KSAT she was informed by police that Aguilera plummeted to her death from the 17th floor of an apartment building just west of the University of Texas at Austin

‘Witnesses heard Brianna arguing on the phone with her boyfriend, which was also confirmed later by the boyfriend,’ Marshall said.

The argument happened two minutes before Aguilera’s body was reported having fallen out of 17-story balcony at 12.46am.

Her fall was reported by a resident who heard a ‘thud’ and then saw a woman on the ground, police said.

Police say none of her friends actually saw her plummet to her death.

All of the people in the apartment have been interviewed multiple times and have been cooperative, police said.

‘It is not common for a police department to speak publicly about a death by suicide,’ Police Chief Lisa Davis told reporters.

‘Inaccurate information has circulated and been reported, and that has led to additional harm of innocent people – bullying included – and their families. There have also been statements suggesting that police have failed to do our jobs. Those statements are not accurate.’

Police says they first shared news of Aguilera’s death with her parents on Saturday afternoon.

‘We spoke through Sunday and Monday through the meeting here,’ Marshall said.

‘Since then, I’ve attempted four times to contact her. I wanted to share this information privately. She did not reply to any of my attempts to talk to her until yesterday afternoon when she asked me to contact her lawyer. However, her father, I have been in contact with. He knows all of this information as of yesterday.’

However, her parents are refusing to accept the police’s findings, issuing a defiant response.

‘As far as we concerned, this is an open investigation and will continue to be open until these parents are satisfied that they know what happened to their daughter,’ the family said through their attorney after the police press conference.

The Aguilera family has hired high-profile lawyer Tony Buzbee to help in her death investigation, according to TV station Fox 26.

Buzbee is having his own press conference Friday afternoon in Houston.