Aggie Star Student's Fam Vows War on Austin Cops After 'Insane' Suicide Ruling| Crime Alert 7PM 12.05.2025

A beautiful Texas A & M student's 17-story plunge has been ruled a suicide after Austin cops uncover a chilling "deleted note" & suicidal comments before the tragedy. Briana Aguilera's family insist that's insane - and will fight tooth & nail for the truth as to what happened. 

An Arizona woman is behind bars accused of slitting her BF's throat in an act she called her "Independence Day."  Plus, one city proves some mean-spirited crooks won't darken their festivities. Jennifer Gould reports. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime al Art hourly update, breaking crime news. Now, I'm
Jennifer Gould. She was a dazzling nineteen year old Texas
A and M communications junior with law school dreams and
her whole life ahead of her. But in the dark
hours of November twenty ninth, Brianna Aguilera tumbled seventeen floors

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from a high rise balcony at the twenty one Rio
apartment complex, and now Austin, Texas cops have ripped the
case wide open with a devastating ruling it was a suicide.
Here's Austin Police Department Detective Robert Marshall at the news conference.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Between all of 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 is 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,

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with some self harming actions earlier in the evening and
a text message to another friend indicating the thought of suicide.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
The bombshell announcement shattered the hopes of Brianna's heartbroken parents,
who had hired Texas Powerhouse attorneys just one day earlier,
insisting that death was suspicious and unresolved. Austin Police Chief
Robin Davidson expressed profound sympathy for the family, but Detective
Robert Marshall's briefing focused on overwhelming digital evidence. The tragic

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timeline began Friday, November twenty eighth, when Aguilera arrived at
the Austin Rugby Club around four pm for a Texas
A and M tailgate after the Aggies disappointing loss to
the Longhorns. In allegedly severely intoxicated, Brianna was asked to

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leave the event, making her way to a friend's seventeenth
floor apartment at twenty one oh one on Rio Grande
Street just after eleven pm. Surveillance captured a group of
friends departing at twelve thirty am, leaving Brianna with three
other women. Then came the final frantic moments. Having lost

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her own phone, Brianna borrowed a friend's device at twelve
forty three am for a one minute call with her
out of town boyfriend, id'd by some outlets as twenty
year old Aldo Sanchez a conversation witnesses described as an argument.
Just two minutes later, at twelve forty six am, a

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bystander heard a sickening thud and discovered her body on
the pavement below. What began as a routine investigation turned
grim when forensic experts reportedly recovered Brianna's discarded phone, allegedly
found in nearby woods. Inside, they claimed they found a chilling,

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deleted digital s suicide note dated November twenty five, four
days before her death, addressed two specific loved ones. Detectives
further revealed that suicidal comments and self harming behaviors had
been observed by friends as far back as October, continuing

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through the final hours of the Faithful Night. But for
her mom, Stephanie Rodriguez, the official answer is a gut punch.
Rodriguez's furious fueled by the revelation that up to fifteen
people were at that seventeenth floor apartment that night, but
not one has spoken to her. Furthermore, the mom claims

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to have text messages detailing a vicious fight between Brianna
and another girl, raising immediate red flags about the official story.
Now armed with high profile attorneys, Tony Busby and Edwin Gamez.
The family issued a defiant response, vowing to continue their

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fight for the truth. Busby stated quote, as far as
we are concerned, this is an open investigation and will
continue to be until these parents are satisfied that they
know what happened to their daughter. More Crime and Justice news.
After this, she wanted freedom and allegedly tried to carve

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it out of his neck. Tamala Rudsil, fifty two, is
facing attempted murder charges after she sneaked up on her
sleeping fifty year old boyfriend of eleven years on Thanksgiving
night and slashed his throat with a hunting knife. The
brutal attack unfolded just after eight pm cops A and

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Mesa Arizona at an apartment complex near Broadway Road. After
delivering the deep, vicious cut, which stretched from the victim's
left ear to the center of his neck, Rude Seal
picked up the phone, dialed nine one one, and confessed
to the crime court. Docks State emergency dispatchers heard her

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say quote, I'm sick of what you do to me.
Today is Independence Day. End quote. She then casually added
a chilling quote, Yes, I did just try to murder
you end quote. Mesa police officers rushed to the scene
to find the victim barely alive, frantically pressing a shirt
to the gaping wound on his neck to control the

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severe bleeding. He told investigators he had woken up to searing,
sharp pain and feared he was dying. That man was
immediately rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency surgery and
is expected to make a full recovery. Thankfully, cops recovered
the large, blood smeared hunting knife near where rude Seal

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was detained outside the apartment. During her subsequent interview with detectives,
rude Seal reportedly remarked, quote, God, I hope he's dead
end quote. Rudecial was booked on one count of attempted
second degree murder and one count of aggravated assault. She
remains in custody at the Maricopa County Jail without bond.

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And finally talk about a truly grinch worthy crime. Someone
in Melbourne, Florida, decided to slay the holiday spirit by
stealing two massive, brightly colored Christmas bulbs from a downtown
holiday display. Melbourne Main Street posted a desperate plea after
the orange and blue decorations, which are literally as big

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as a person vanished from a street corner. The organization
stressed the bulbs are impossible to hide under a jacket
due to their size, suggesting the thief needed an entire
elf army for the hall. Executive director Kim McGee spoke
to News six. I can't imagine there must have been
some people involved. I would think to hoist them up

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on something and get them out of here. Police are
now investigating the bulb nabbing, reviewing camera footage to unlike
the mystery, the organization promises a holiday miracle with no
questions asked if the bulbs mysteriously reappear, but that does
not guarantee these crooks won't still show up on the

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Naughty List for lifting the lights. For the latest crime
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