The Daily Mail reports that the police have opened a new investigation into 23-year-old Lauren Smith-Fields’ death after her family got pissed off and accused the police of failing to properly investigate her White Bumble date, 37-year-old Matthew LaFountain. Lauren died after meeting with LaFountain, so her family expected the police to go after him and drag him into the investigation, but since that never happened, the family thought the police were playing around with their daughter’s death.
Police in Connecticut launched a criminal investigation Tuesday into the death of a 23-year-old college student who was killed by a lethal cocktail of drugs, including fentanyl, while on a Bumble date last month.
This latest development comes after the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on Monday ruled Lauren Smith-Fields’s death an accident caused by acute intoxication due to the combined effects of fentanyl, promethazine, hydroxyzine, and alcohol.
Fentanyl is a highly addictive and potentially deadly synthetic opioid prescribed to treat severe pain, while promethazine and hydroxyzine are allergy medications.
The new probe will try to figure out how and where Smith-Fields procured the deadly drug. The woman’s Bumble date, 37-year-old Matthew LaFountain, a design engineer, has not been charged with any crime in connection with her death. He has remained mum since being questioned by cops.
Lakeem Jetter, Smith-Fields’ brother, was the next-to-last person to have seen his sister alive on the night she died, when he arrived at her Bridgeport home to collect a basket of clothes from her.
LaFountain has claimed the brother was there to drop something off with Lauren. After seeing Jetter, LaFountain told cops Smith-Fields went to the bathroom and stayed there for at least 10 minutes, which he thought was ‘odd.’
LaFountain’s story is that Smith-Fields passed out, so he put her in bed. She claims he slept in the bed with his clothes on, and nothing sexual happened. When he woke up, he found her body cold and called 911.
I am not a detective, but it is very hard to believe she was taking that many drugs, and LaFountain had no idea where she got them from or didn’t partake in some of them himself. Could it have been an accident, it is possible, could LaFountain not be telling the whole story that is HIGHLY likely, but the police said they don’t want to investigate him because he is a “nice guy.”
Hopefully, justice is served in this case, but I have my doubts.
Flip to the next page to see photos of Lauren and her speaking on wanting to have a sugar daddy like her Bumble date Mathew LaFountain.