The mom of a Texas A&M cheerleader found dead after a football game has revealed that her daughter’s phone was in Do Not Disturb mode the night she died, which the mother found odd considering she had set a “rule” that her teen had to keep her location on when out with friends.
College junior Brianna Aguilera, 19, was discovered dead outside an apartment complex around 1 a.m. Saturday after attending Friday’s UT vs. Texas A&M tailgate in Austin.
Aguilera’s mom tried to contact her daughter hours before she learned of her death, she said.
“What was weird to me and skeptical was her phone was on Do Not Disturb. We always had this rule that if she was going to go out, she had to have her phone on ‘location on’ and answer her text to at least let me know she was ok,” Stephanie Rodriguez told KGNS.
“That stopped happening around 6 p.m.,” said the mom from Laredo, Texas.
Rodriguez called the Austin Police Department after failing to get in touch with her daughter, but was told she couldn’t file a missing person’s report because it had been less than 24 hours, she claimed.
Her daughter’s phone was pinging by a creek, but cops reportedly told her they couldn’t check the scene, “which scared me the most, because all these murders have been coming out in Austin and bodies have been found in creeks,” Rodriguez said.
Aguilera’s phone was still in the same location Saturday morning, Rodriguez said.
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Her daughter’s body was found by a passerby later that day, and police finally called Rodriguez at 4 p.m. Saturday to let her know the body was in the morgue.
Rodriguez has insisted her daughter was killed, after reports that the death may have been accidental or suicide.
“This was not accidental. Someone killed my Brie and gave all the group of friends a lot of time to come up with the same story. My daughter would not jump 17 stories from a building, and to be labeling this as a suicide is insane. My daughter loved life and was excited to graduate and pursue her career in law,” Rodriguez wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.
