A man who investigators claim the female student at Texas’ Rice University had been in a “dating relationship” with shot and killed her on Monday.
Around 4:30 p.m. local time, university police responded to a request for a welfare check and discovered Andrea Rodriguez Avila, the student, dead in her dorm. Reginald DesRoches, the president of the school, told the media that police also found a “unidentified male with a self-inflicted… gunshot wound, who was not a member of the Rice community.”
According to Rice Chief of Police Clemente Rodriguez, officers discovered a note “written by the suspect” at the scene, which led them to believe the man had shot Avila.
In regards to the note, he stated, “in general terms, it was a lot about their relationship, and then obviously they were having a troubled relationship at this time,” adding that authorities thought it was a “dating relationship.”
“The Rice campus is safe, and there is no immediate threat” to the neighborhood, according to DesRoches.
“And tonight, we will wrap our arms around our students,” he continued.
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