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A cause of death has been released for 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham, whose body was found in the Trinity River five days after she went missing.

Young Texas girl, Audrii Cunningham, whose body was found days after she went missing died of blunt force trauma, authorities said Wednesday.

A family friend accused of killing 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham was supposed to take the Texas girl to her school bus stop when they left her home in his vehicle nearly a week before authorities found her body in a river, according to court documents released Wednesday.

Audrii Cunningham, the 11-year-old Texas girl whose body was found in a river this week, died from homicidal violence that included blunt head trauma, a medical examiner's office said Thursday.

Audrii Cunningham, the 11-year-old girl whose body was found tied to a rock in a Texas river, died of "homicidal violence including blunt head trauma."

Polk County Sheriff's OfficeThe cause of death of the 11-year-old Texas girl whose body was found in a river after going missing days earlier on her way to school has been revealed.Audrii Cunningham died from “homicidal violence,” the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences confirmed in a report seen by The Daily Beast.The report adds Cunningham's cause of death included “blunt head trauma” and added the manner of death was a homicide. No further detail...

An Amber Alert was issued for Audrii, who lived in Livingston, Texas, after she did not board the school bus on February 15 and was absent from school.

KPRC 2 has obtained an audio recording of the Polk County Sheriff, appearing to admit the ball was dropped in a previous criminal investigation involving Audrii’s suspected killer, Don Steven McDougal.

Audrii Cunningham, the Texas 11-year-old who investigators say was killed by a family friend, died from “homicidal violence including blunt head trauma

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