{"id":106967,"date":"2024-08-27T12:03:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T12:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/female-student-at-rice-university-killed-in-dorm-room-on-first-day-of-classes\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T12:03:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T12:03:34","slug":"female-student-at-rice-university-killed-in-dorm-room-on-first-day-of-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/female-student-at-rice-university-killed-in-dorm-room-on-first-day-of-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Female student at Rice University killed in dorm room on first day of classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-27\/GETTYRF_72222_PoliceCarDay%20%2814%29.jpg\" alt><figcaption>avid_creative\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; A female student at Texas&#8217; Rice University was shot and killed on Monday by a man authorities said she had been in a &#8220;dating relationship&#8221; with.<\/p>\n<p>University police responded to a request for a welfare check around 4:30 p.m. local time and found the student, who was identified as Andrea Rodriguez Avila, deceased in her room. Police also discovered an &#8220;unidentified male with a self-inflicted \u2026 gunshot wound, who was not a member of the Rice community,&#8221; school president Reginald DesRoches told the media.<\/p>\n<p>Chief of Police for Rice, Clemente Rodriguez, confirmed police found a note &#8220;written by the suspect&#8221; at the scene, leading to their belief that the male shot Avila.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In general terms, it was a lot about their relationship, and then obviously they were having a troubled relationship at this time,&#8221; he said of the note, adding that officials believe it was a &#8220;dating relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DesRoches said the &#8220;Rice campus is safe, and there is no immediate threat\u201d to the community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And tonight, we will wrap our arms around our students,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>avid_creative\/Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; A female student at Texas&#8217; Rice University was shot and killed on Monday by a man authorities said she had been in a &#8220;dating relationship&#8221; with. University police responded to a request for a welfare check around 4:30 p.m. local time and found the student,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/female-student-at-rice-university-killed-in-dorm-room-on-first-day-of-classes\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}