A Rice College scholar was allegedly fatally shot by her boyfriend, who then turned the gun on himself, in her dorm room on the school’s first day of courses.
The college canceled all courses on Tuesday.
College police performed a welfare verify round 4 p.m. on Monday and located junior Andrea Rodriguez Avila lifeless in her room at Jones Faculty in Houston. A member of the family had requested the verify after that they had not heard from Avila, college police chief Clemente Rodriguez stated at a press convention on Monday.
Officers additionally discovered a person lifeless from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was not a Rice College scholar.
Avila is believed to be from Maryland and the person is probably from Florida, however that is still beneath investigation.
Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle through AP
Rodriguez stated the 2 had been in a “relationship relationship.” He stated the one method the person may have gotten entry to the constructing was if Avila had permitted him to enter.
Rodriguez advised the outlet that police discovered a word “written by the suspect” within the room.
“Normally phrases, it was quite a bit about their relationship, after which clearly they had been having a troubled relationship presently,” he stated.
Houston Police Division is main the investigation, which is being handled as a murder-suicide. They stated the feminine sufferer was 21 and the male suspect was 22 in a press release, however withheld their identities pending verification by the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences.
Anybody with info on this case is requested to contact Houston Police Division’s Murder Division at 713-308-3600.
“It’s with deep unhappiness and shock that I write to you on what ought to have been a day full of promise and new beginnings,” Rice College president Reginald DesRoches stated in a statement. “As a substitute, we discover ourselves mourning the lack of one among our personal in a tragic occasion that has shaken our campus to its core.”
He stated the campus is secure and there’s “no additional menace.”
“It is a heartbreaking, devastating incident, and you will need to acknowledge that this loss will have an effect on our close-knit neighborhood within the days and weeks forward,” DesRoches stated.
Assets might be obtainable to school college students, college and workers affected by the incident.
“In moments like these, our energy, care and resilience as a neighborhood are extra essential than ever,” DesRoches stated. “Please care for yourselves and one another. Allow us to honor Andrea’s reminiscence by coming collectively in unity and compassion.”
Rice College is a non-public analysis college positioned in Houston. The varsity has an enrollment of over 8,600 college students. It is among the most selective universities within the nation, solely admitting a record-low 7.5% of candidates for the autumn 2024 semester.
Lengthy Island Household Killed in Homicide-Suicide
Within the northeast, Joseph DeLucia, Jr. was unable to come back to phrases with shedding the house he had lived in for his total life after the dying of his mom.
As a substitute, he shot 4 of his relations and later himself in an obvious murder-suicide on Sunday as they waited for an actual property agent to reach.
Joseph DeLucia, Jr., 59, lived along with his 95-year-old mom, Theresa Martha DeLucia, in Syosset, New York.
The girl died on August 19, so the household had deliberate to fulfill to debate the sale of the home.
Joseph DeLucia, Jr. was anxious that he wouldn’t have a spot to stay, Nassau County officers stated at a press convention on Monday.
Officials responded to the home for a report of photographs fired at round midday. Police discovered 69-year-old Joann Kearns, 64-year-old Frank DeLucia, 64-year-old Tina Hammond and 30-year-old Victoria Hammond fatally shot within the rear den of the residence. The victims had been the siblings and niece of Joseph DeLucia, Jr.
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