11-year-old Audrii Cunningham's cause of death revealed after body found in Texas river

HOUSTON -- Nearly 2 days aft Audrii Cunningham's assemblage was recovered successful a stream successful Texas, the aesculapian examiner's bureau confirmed that she died from blunt caput trauma.

Authorities said Audrii had been missing since Thursday, Feb. 15, erstwhile she did not marque it to her schoolhouse autobus that morning.

Investigators found the 11-year-old's body six days aft the Amber Alert notified Texans of her disappearance.

Polk County Sheriff Byron Lyons did not disclose the information of Audrii's body, which the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences received for an autopsy.

On Thursday, the aesculapian examiner's bureau said Audrii died from homicidal unit including blunt caput trauma. Officials did not supply further information.

Don Steven McDougal was archetypal named arsenic a superior idiosyncratic of involvement successful the lawsuit and aboriginal a fishy successful her murder.

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Polk County District Attorney Shelley Sitton said McDougal is charged with superior execution of a idiosyncratic adjacent to much than 10 years aged but little than 15 years old.

McDougal was already successful custody connected an unrelated aggravated battle with a deadly limb charge.

McDougal was said to beryllium a person of Audrii's father, allowed to unrecorded successful a trailer down their Livingston house.

According to Lyons, McDougal admitted to leaving the location with Audrii the greeting she disappeared but would not archer investigators what happened next.