A petition seeking to reopen the law enforcement investigation into University of Colorado student Megan Trussell’s February death hit 1,000 signatures two days after the University of Colorado Police Department case report for Trussell’s case was released.

The Change.org petition asks the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and state Attorney General Phil Weiser to start fresh with the Trussell case. Trussell, 18, died in February. Her body was found near the 40-mile marker of Boulder Canyon Drive. The Boulder County Coroner determined her death was a result of the toxic effects of amphetamine and exposure to a cold environment, or hypothermia and ruled the manner of her death is suicide.

Rebecca Perez, Trussell’s cousin and the petition’s organizer, echoed Trussell’s family’s claims that

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