What We Know About the Death of 11-Year-Old Audrii Cunningham in Texas

Published on February 24, 2024

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. Don Steven McDougal, 42, a family friend who authorities say was supposed to be taking Audrii to the school bus stop the day she disappeared, is charged with capital murder. Authorities had named him as a person of interest early in the investigation. He was charged in her death after authorities announced that Audrii’s body had been found in the Trinity River in a rural area north of Houston, not far from where she lived....