‘Insufferable circus’ — Family wants Texas Rangers to investigate deaths of Nichol Olsen and two daughters in Anaqua Springs

The family of a girl who was shot to death with her mother and sister in a luxury home in Anaqua Springs Ranch in 2019 wants the Texas Rangers to conduct their own investigation into the crime. In a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the family of 10-year-old London Sophia Bribiescas and their lawyer request that Paxton take the case away from the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office and reassign it to the Rangers, the state’s elite law enforcement agency. The letter cites the family’s loss of confidence in the sheriff’s office to conduct “an impartial and accurate investigation” into the three deaths. It also says that an “antagonistic relationship” and “extreme tension” have developed between Sheriff Javier Salazar and the victims’ families.

“As far as we know there has been no activity on the case for years,” states the letter, written by the slain child’s aunt, Emma Bribiescas Mancha Sumners of Austin, and sent to Paxton on Thursday. Her brother, Hector Bribiescas, is London’s father. The sheriff, Sumners added, “will not state if the case is still being actively investigated ... or why the case hasn’t been closed.” “Much like the Uvalde families are asking for transparency and accountability,” she wrote, referring to the survivors of those killed in the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, “ ... so are we, in order to get closure for our loved ones who suffer daily not knowing what exactly happened that tragic night.” In response, the sheriff’s office said it will continue working on the case. “The assigned investigator will continue to devote his efforts until every facet of this investigation has been completed, in order to provide closure for the families of Nichol Olsen, Alexa Montez and London Bribiescas,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement late Friday.