Divers have recovered the body of 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham from a Texas river days after the girl went missing, and authorities are preparing to file a murder charge against a friend of her father who lived on her family’s property, a sheriff said Tuesday afternoon.

Audrii Cunningham, the 11-year-old found dead in a river five days after disappearing in Texas, died from blunt head trauma, authorities confirm with PEOPLE. Her cause of death is "homicidal violence" and her manner of death has been ruled a homicide, Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences tells PEOPLE.

The body of Audrii Cunningham, an 11-year-old girl who disappeared while on her way to school in Texas, was found Tuesday in the Trinity River, according to Polk County Sheriff Byron Lyons.