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A family has been left with a heavy heart following the sudden death of their loved one as they continuously search for answers of what really happened to her!
23 year old Connecticut resident, Lauren Smith-Fields was discovered unresponsive in her home by local officers back in December, following a call from an older white male identified as Matthew LaFountain, 37 she met days before on the dating app Bumble reports CNN.
The police report obtained by DailyMail.com revealed that Smith-Fields asked LaFountain for $40 to get her nails done and then to meet her at her residence where the pair reportedly took ‘shots of tequila’.
He states that the night before the tragic incident she allegedly invited him over, they took tequila shots, ate and watched movies. He says that she had thrown up at one point but continued drinking soon after. According to Matthew her brother had passed by to pick up clothes but only stayed for a short while. He says she went outside to meet him.
I didn’t know that anybody was in there,’ Jetter told the magazine. ‘She came out and she was out there for like 10-15 minutes and she walked back into the house. She looked normal. She didn’t look sick, she didn’t look tired, she didn’t look drunk.’ says Lauren’s brother Lakeem Jetter in an interview with Rolling Stone.
He also says that at one point that night she had allegedly gone to the bathroom for 15 minutes.
The ‘older white man’ who was on a Bumble date with 23-year-old Connecticut Lauren Smith-Fields before she was found dead after a night of drinking has been revealed as Matthew LaFountain, a 37-year-old design engineer she knew for three days
It has been stated that Afterwards, Lauren and Matthew continued to watch the movie, finished the bottle of tequila and she fell asleep on the couch. He says that he allegedly carried her to her bedroom and they fell asleep.
Matthew told police that the next morning he woke up to use the bathroom and that Lauren was lying down snoring. He says hours later he awoke again and she was lying on her right side with blood coming out of her nostril spilling on to the bed. His name has been reported as being removed from records of the incident.
Officials state upon their arrival Lauren was lying on her back on the floor completely unresponsive with dried blood around her right nostril. Medics pronounced her dad on arrival with officers collecting more than $1,300 in cash, her passport, a credit card and her cell phone.
Sources confirm that the police did not contact her family and that the landlord left a note on the door for anyone to contact him if they’re looking for her.
“The mom had been calling, because Christmas dinner was supposed to be at Lauren’s house that year,” says the family’s attorney Darnell Crosland to CNN. “They drove over there, found a note on door from the landlord that said if anyone is looking for Lauren, call me. The police never tried to reach out to the family, they just took her body out of the home.”
Darnell says the detectives assigned to the case were “rude.” He states that they treated the family poorly when they called searching for answers about their loved one. He says that the police told the family that they did not find anything suspicious and allegedly “there was no blunt force trauma.”
It has been indicated that Smith-Fields’ family accused the police department of violating their civil rights, mishandling the investigation of Lauren’s death and not notifying them she had died.
Following the family’s demands for justice, officials have recently declared Lauren’s death an accidental overdose “caused by “acute intoxication due to the combined effects of fentanyl, promethazine, hydroxyzine and alcohol.”
Fentanyl is a strong narcotic associated with an epidemic of opioid-related overdose deaths in the United States,” police said. “The City of Bridgeport is not immune to this epidemic.”
However, the autopsy report only lead to further suspicions as the family want to know what lead up to Lauren’s death.
“The M.E. findings doesn’t cure any of the Bridgeport’s lack of process, in (fact) it makes it worse. Instead we are left with more questions than answers as a result of a botched investigation or lack thereof,” says Darnell.
