Bumble Releases Statement Calling for a “Thorough and Serious Investigation” into Lauren Smith-Fields’ Death

Bumble asks for a “thorough and serious investigation” after a woman was found dead following a date with an older white man she met on the app.

On Wednesday, Bumble released a statement on the company’s Instagram page, addressing Lauren Smith-Fields‘ suspicious death and urging investigators to dig deeper into the matter.

“With additional information about the death of Lauren Smith-Fields coming to light, we continue to be unsettled by this loss. We empathize with Lauren’s family and beloved community, and we stand by our statement that every parent deserves to know what has happened to their child.”

The statement continued saying: “This matter deserves a thorough and serious investigation for the Fields family to get justice for Lauren.

Baller Alert previously reported that Smith-Fields was found dead in her apartment on Dec 12, 2021, after her date with Matthew LaFountain.

Smith and LaFountain were drinking tequila at her place of residence when she became ill and stepped away for a moment to vomit, according to the Bridgeport Police Department report.

The pair reportedly continued to drink until Smith-Fields got a text from her brother and stepped outside her apartment to retrieve something from him.

According to the incident report, Smith-Fields returned to her apartment and went to the bathroom for several minutes. The police report added that LaFountain later told officers that “he thought it was odd, but didn’t feel it was his place to say anything as he did not know her that well.”

LaFountain contacted the police the following day when he discovered blood coming from Smith-Fields right nostril and noticed that she wasn’t breathing. He was the last person who saw her alive and was not questioned as a suspect in connection to her death, according to reports.

On Monday, the medical examiner’s ruled Lauren Smith-Field’s death an accident resulting from “an overdose of Fentanyl combined with prescription medication and alcohol.”

Smith-Fields’s brother, who saw her the night of her passing, shared that his sister was not drunk and “didn’t look sick” when he received his clothes from her.

Police launched a criminal investigation into her death hours after the medical examiner’s office released her cause of death.

The Smith-Field family has been vocal about the alleged inconsistencies in LaFountain’s story and accused the police department of mishandling the subsequent investigation.

The family’s attorney released a statement on their behalf, saying, “there’s a typical protocol that’s followed when you have a situation like this. If you have a husband or wife or boyfriend or girlfriend, call the police because one of them is dead typically, the person who is surviving is pivotal to the investigation. Most times, they are looked at as a suspect because they were the last person with the deceased, and in this particular case, the police have been very hesitant to even call this person a “person of interest.

Chief Rebecca Garcia stated in a report that the Bridgeport Police Department will “continue to treat” Smith-Fields death as an active investigation.

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