A 14-year-old cheerleader was fatally shot in her southeast Texas bedroom last week by a 19-year-old man she thought was 16, police said. The two, who police say may have been romantically involved, had planned to get together the day she was found with two gunshot wounds to the head.

Tristan Dilley, who was a cheerleader at Silsbee High School, was found lying facedown Oct. 1 in her bed in Buna, two days before her 15th birthday, The Beaumont Enterprise reported.

Tristan stayed home while her family went shopping, and when they returned her 13-year-old brother discovered her dead with two gunshot wounds to the head, Jasper County Sheriff Mitchel Newman told the newspaper.

There was no evidence of a struggle or forced entry.

Tristan met Paul Audrey Adams, 19 of Vido through a relative who later told Adams to leave the girl alone because he was too old for her, the newspaper reported.

Tristan Dilley (GoFundMe)

“From what we could gather, they were trying to see each other when her mother was gone,” Newman said.

While Texas Rangers were meeting with Adams’ mother Monday, he called his mom and told her he was at Tristan’s home during the shooting, police said. He insisted that he was innocent and that the girl had been shot by an intruder.

Adams hung up after the Rangers told him he could be a useful witness in the death.

Officers tracked him to a secluded, wooded area where he set up a tent. As two deputies approached him, he fatally shot himself in the head, the newspaper reported.

Police believe he used the same .22 Magnum revolver to shoot himself that was used to kill Tristan.

“He ruined two families,” Newman said. “Not just hers, but he ruined his, too.”