AUSTIN, Texas (Scripps News Waco) — The Austin Police Department has ruled the death of Brianna Aguilera a suicide.

APD said during a press conference on Thursday that officers found a “digital, deleted suicide note” on her phone that was originally dated Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, that was written to specific people in her life, the lead investigator said.

Police Chief Lisa Davis and Detective Marshall held a press conference to address what they called “inaccurate information” that had circulated online about Aguilera’s death on Nov. 29 at the 21 Rio apartments on Rio Grande Street.

“It is not common for a police department to speak publicly about a death by suicide,” Davis said. “But inaccurate information has circulated and been reported. And that has led to additional harm of inno

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