Austin, TX — In a jaw-dropping scene that could have been ripped from a Netflix true-crime doc, a wild-eyed 34-year-old man stormed the Austin Police Department headquarters at 10:17 p.m. Tuesday night screaming, “I killed the Aggie girl! I pushed Brianna off that balcony — her screams are in my head!” Only for detectives to laugh him out of the building within 90 minutes, calling his confession “100% fabricated bullshit from a known attention whore.”

The man — identified as Harlan “Hank” Whitaker, a homeless street preacher with a rap sheet longer than 6th Street on game day — was captured on lobby body-cam pounding the counter, sobbing, and even producing a hand-drawn diagram of the 21 Rio 17th-floor balcony marked with “where I shoved her” in red Sharpie.

But APD homicide detectives weren’t buying it for a single second.

“Zero physical evidence, zero DNA, zero connection — the guy was literally panhandling on South Congress at the exact time of death,” Lead Detective Robert Marshall told Fox 7 off-record. “He saw the viral videos, read the Reddit threads, and decided he wanted five minutes of fame. We’ve seen this clown before — last year he confessed to shooting JFK Jr.”

Yet for Brianna Aguilera’s devastated family and their bulldog attorney Tony Buzbee, the dismissal is just the latest middle finger from a department they accuse of botching the case from day one.

“This is EXACTLY why we don’t trust APD’s investigation!” Buzbee roared Wednesday morning in an explosive Instagram Live that racked up 1.2 million views in hours. “They rush to call it suicide in 72 hours, ignore missing balcony footage, ignore screams heard by multiple witnesses, and now when someone walks in and confesses — they kick him out like he’s selling bootleg T-shirts outside DKR? This stinks to high heaven!”

Stephanie Rodriguez, Brianna’s mother, broke down in tears during the livestream: “My baby called me every single day. She was excited about law school, excited about life. And now they’re treating her death like an inconvenience? We’re not stopping. #JusticeForBrianna — KEEP FIGHTING!”

The bombshell confession attempt comes just days after Buzbee revealed the mysterious 17th-floor resident list that allegedly “changes everything,” and amid growing rumors of:

Multiple 911 callers reporting hearing a female screaming “NO! STOP!” seconds before the fall
Balcony camera footage that was “working perfectly” hours earlier but conveniently malfunctioned exactly during Brianna’s death
Witnesses allegedly telling private investigators they saw a “shadowy male figure” on the balcony with the girls
Deleted Ring camera footage from a neighboring unit that has mysteriously vanished

Sources inside APD confirm Whitaker’s confession was dead on arrival: his timeline was off by 40 minutes, he described Brianna wearing a Longhorns jersey (she was in A&M maroon), and he claimed he “threw her phone into the Colorado River” — when her phone was actually recovered in the woods near the tailgate, exactly where witnesses said she lost it.

But the optics are nuclear.

Social media is exploding with side-by-side videos: Whitaker’s tearful confession next to APD’s body-cam of officers literally escorting him out while one detective can be heard saying, “Go confess to your TikTok followers, buddy — we’re busy with real police work.”

#JusticeForBrianna is trending number one worldwide, with over 800,000 posts in the last 12 hours. Texas A&M students have organized a candlelight vigil at Kyle Field tonight, while UT students — in a rare show of cross-rivalry unity — are planning a simultaneous gathering at the Tower.

Buzbee dropped the hammer Wednesday afternoon: “We’ve formally requested the Texas Rangers take over this investigation. If APD won’t follow where the evidence leads — even when someone walks in and hands them a confession — then they have no business investigating a parking ticket, let alone the murder of a 19-year-old honor student.”

As of press time, the Travis County Medical Examiner’s full autopsy and toxicology report — originally promised weeks ago — remains unreleased.

One thing is crystal clear: what started as a tragic fall is now a full-blown war between a grieving family with unlimited resources and a police department accused of protecting someone — or something — on that 17th floor.

Brianna Aguilera deserved better than to become a viral mystery.

Her family says they’ll fight until she gets justice.

And after last night?

America is fighting with them.