Texas mom finds high school cheerleader daughter dead in bathtub of their apartment, police investigating as capital murder

A grieving Texas mom is speaking out after she discovered her 16-year-old daughter dead in the bathtub of the apartment they both lived in.

Jacqueline Medina told Fox News Digital that she found the remains of her daughter, Lizbeth "Liz" Medina, on Tuesday evening just before 7 p.m. after not hearing from her all day.

"I decided to go look for her. And I kept calling her phone nonstop, and it would take me straight to voicemail," said Medina.

"I called a bunch of people and nobody knew anything," she continued. "It wasn't until I walked into the restroom that I was on the phone with my friend asking him to come help me look for her — is when I [saw] her foot, and it was in the bathtub. And so I opened the curtains. There she was."

Medina and her daughter had temporarily moved from Nebraska to the Cottonwood Apartments in the town of Edna just southeast of Houston. The victim was a cheerleader at Edna High School.

The mom says she had gone back to the apartment to change her work clothing and had not seen that her daughter was dead in the bathtub before she left.

"It hurts me. When I went to go change, I didn't realize that she had been there the whole time. I could have seen her," said Medina. "I didn't look. I just didn't go into the restroom."

Medina says their apartment was broken into a few weeks prior to the death of her daughter, and she believes it might be related.

Police have not released any further details about how the teenager died.

"I don't understand why. My God, why would they do this to her?" Medina added. "She's such a beautiful, smart, and amazing girl. There's moments where I just can't take it. And then there's moments where I feel like I need to be strong for her."

Here's a local news report about the incident:

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