Rice University Police Department investigating murder-suicide in Jones College after female student found dead
A Rice University junior was killed on the first day of the fall semester in what police are investigating as a murder-suicide in her dorm room. Andrea Rodriguez Avila was found shot to death in Jones College after a 4:30 p.m. Monday welfare check by the university police department, school officials said. A man who was not believed to be a Rice student was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Authorities conducted a welfare check at the request of the victim's family and visited the dorm after learning she missed a class, Rice University Chief of Police Clemente Rodriguez said. Rice leaders said they discovered no signs of forced entry at the dorm, where officers found the bodies as well as a note detailing some troubles in an apparent dating relationship between the two, he said.
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