Investigators with the Houston Police Division say they don’t suspect foul play within the demise of a College of Houston scholar whose physique was discovered within the Brays Bayou this week.
Jade McKissic, 20, had been reported lacking on Sunday after final being seen at about 1 a.m. Sept. 11 within the 3700 block of North MacGregor Approach, in accordance with HPD. The division mentioned in a Friday information launch that she “had spent the night with associates at native bars and left the bar by herself, additionally leaving her cellular phone behind. She then went to a fuel station subsequent door to purchase a drink.”
McKissic was final seen leaving the fuel station alone and strolling towards to the Brays Bayou on the nook of MacGregor and Scott Road.
On Monday morning, Houston police recovered her physique greater than 2 miles away close to the college’s School of Medication constructing. HPD mentioned an post-mortem “revealed no indicators of trauma or foul play and the reason for demise remains to be underneath investigation.”
The web site for the Harris County medical expert’s workplace lists McKissic’s method and explanation for demise as “pending.”
A vigil for McKissic is deliberate on the UH campus on Monday afternoon, in accordance with a put up on Instagram. The group Meditation Monday is planning a balloon launch in McKissic’s reminiscence at Lynn Eusan Park.
Different college students and college associates shared tributes to McKissic on social media. The college’s chapter of Her Campus, a e-newsletter targeted on faculty ladies, shared an Instagram put up, writing, “A brand new addition to our editorial crew, she was an distinctive author with a shiny future. … Her shiny persona and wonderful character are simply a number of the explanation why she is cherished by so many, and we’ll without end keep in mind her.”
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