The mother of a 19-year-old Texas A&M University student who died after falling from a high-rise apartment near the University of Texas at Austin is pleading for answers — and students living nearby say the circumstances feel deeply unsettling.

Brianna Aguilera, of Laredo, was found unresponsive late Friday night into early Saturday morning outside the 21 Rio apartment complex in Austin.

Austin Police say she fell from the 17th floor of the building. But her mother, Stephanie Rodriguez, says the information she has been given doesn’t add up.

‘It’s unbearable and unimaginable’

Rodriguez said she last heard from her daughter around 6 p.m. Friday, shortly after Aguilera arrived in Austin for the Texas vs. Texas A&M football game.

When Aguilera’s phone went silent and appeared to be on “D

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