Rice University in Houston experienced a murder-suicide on the first day of fall semester, leading to campus lockdown.
A murder-suicide occurred at Rice University in Houston on the first day of the fall semester. University police discovered a female student, Andrea Rodriguez Avila, deceased in her dorm room and found an unidentified male, not a university student, with a self-inflicted gunshot wound nearby. The Rice University Police Department is leading the investigation with assistance from the Houston Police Department. The campus was placed on lockdown for nearly two hours following the discovery, but the campus has since been declared safe.
August 27, 2024
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