Bridgeport police announced they are opening a criminal investigation into the death of 23-year-old college student Lauren Smith-Fields, Darnell Crosland, the attorney for Smith-Fields’s family, confirmed to Yahoo News.
in prison after being convicted on felony charges that included extortion, bribery and racketeering while he was mayor of Bridgeport in the early 2000s. He went on to mount a comeback campaign for mayor.Ganim, noting the pain that Smith-Fields’s family has endured the last six weeks, on Monday said the city’s Office of Internal Affairs, which is part of the police department, will conduct a “full and fair investigation” into the police’s handling of her death.
Bridgeport police declined Yahoo News’ request for comment. The front desk staffer who answered the phone hastily stated, “It’s all over the internet. Put her name in,” before hanging up. “When there is no foul play, there is no crime,” Rowena White, Bridgeport’s communications director, told Yahoo News.
Smith-Fields’s family was also never notified of her death by police, and only found out from a paper left on her door when they went to visit her.Once inside the apartment, Fields said she found a condom with semen inside and a pill that the family believes could be a sedative.Crosland, the family’s attorney, said police failed on the first day of the investigation.
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