Officials have determined the cause of death for the missing 11-year-old girl whose body was found in the Trinity River in Texas this week. Audrii Cunningham died of “homicidal violence including blunt head trauma,” according to the Harris County medical examiner’s office. Her body was found Tuesday.

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. “Audrii’s body was located at the Trinity River under US Highway 59,” Lyons told reporters at a Tuesday news conference.

The body of missing 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham was found in a Texas river Tuesday afternoon, six days after a desperate search for her began, authorities said. The girl vanished Thursday after she failed to get on a school bus near her Livingston home, and her body was found in the Trinity River, Polk County officials said.

Authorities in Texas announced Tuesday that they have located the body of 11-year-old Audrii Cunningham five days after she disappeared. The Polk County Sheriff Byron Lyons said at a press conference that Audrii's body was found in Trinity River. "My heart aches with this news," he added.