Rice University

Rice University Student Found Dead in Dorm Room from Apparent Murder-Suicide
Murder-Suicide

An investigation is under way in Houston after a Rice University junior waws found dead in her dorm room Monday afternoon. Authorities made entry into Andrew Rodriguez Avila’s dorm room after a family member contacted the school, saying they hadn’t heard from her and asking for a welfare check. Avila was from Maryland, KTRK reported. …

Former college football star sold lineman elephant tranquilizer that led to fatal overdose: Cops
Drug Crime
October 6, 2018

Former college football star sold lineman elephant tranquilizer that led to fatal overdose: Cops

HOUSTON (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a former Rice University football player with selling the drugs that a current player fatally overdosed on earlier this year. Twenty-five-year-old Stuart Michael Mouchantaf was being held Friday in the Harris County jail in Houston on a charge of delivery of a controlled substance causing death. The county district …