Houston private damage legal professional Tony Buzbee desires Gov. Greg Abbott to order the Texas Rangers to research the “suspicious” demise of Texas A&M undergrad Brianna Aguilera.
Throughout an animated Friday press convention, the high-profile legal professional stated the state police ought to be trying into the matter if the Austin Police Division received’t assign a brand new detective to the case.
Buzbee accused Austin authorities of a messy and rushed investigation into Aguilera’s demise, which murder investigator Robert Marshal on Thursday dominated a suicide — despite the fact that post-mortem outcomes weren’t but obtainable.
“You’ll be able to’t shut a ebook in the course of studying a chapter and say that it’s closed and it’s over,” Buzbee stated. “That’s not the way it works. You’ll be able to’t misclassify a demise like this. While you misclassify a demise, you’re planting a lie within the soil the place fact ought to develop.”
All through the almost hour-long press convention on the seventy fifth ground of Houston’s Chase Tower, Buzbee repeatedly poked on the Austin Police Division’s investigation and lambasted the media for accepting the official narrative as truth.
Formally, police say that Aguilera was requested to go away a Latin Financial Enterprise Affiliation tailgate on the Austin Rugby Membership after changing into intoxicated earlier than the Nov. 28 A&M-UT recreation. She then stumbled into a close-by wooded space, the place she misplaced her cellphone, in response to authorities.
She entered the 21 Rio Residences in West Campus, the place she was staying with a good friend, at round 11 p.m, police additionally keep. She then borrowed a good friend’s cellphone shortly earlier than 1 a.m. to name her boyfriend, after which an argument ensued.
Two minutes later, Aguilera’s stays had been found by a bystander on the pavement 17 tales under.
Police say a deleted message in Aguilera’s cellphone was a suicide notice, suggesting she ended her personal life. Nevertheless, each Buzbee and Aguilera’s mom, Stephanie Rodriguez, argue she was imaginative and accomplished a inventive writing course the semester prior.
Buzbee’s criticism of APD primarily centered on what occurred in these two minutes between when Aguilera gave her cellphone again to her good friend, who was within the small, cramped condo on the time of her fall. The legal professional accused investigators of failing to query that good friend or any of the opposite women current within the unit on the time of Aguilera’s demise.
“Why not query the entire witnesses?” Buzbee posed on-line. “Why not query the entire witnesses … ? Why not study all of the telephones of the good friend group? We requested that query in a Zoom name [with Austin police.] You already know what we had been instructed? We don’t have the facility to have a look at their telephones. Hogwash.”
Buzbee additionally questioned why police allowed the leasee of the condo the place Aguilera was staying to vacate it — a truth he stated the the division omitted — and why the buddies who had been with Aguilera waited till midday the following day to report her lacking.
“The condo is sort of a dorm,” Buzbee stated. “It’s very small. There’s no method you will be in that condo and conceal when you’re within the condo. Folks know you’re in that condo.”
Buzbee emphasised throughout the press convention, nonetheless, that he’s not pushing the narrative that APD is concerned in a cover-up or conspiracy, however moderately, that their work is “lazy and incompetent.”
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