Smith-Fields was found dead in her apartment on Dec. 12, after Matthew LaFountain, the 37-year-old white man she was on a date with, called the police. LaFountain told police that he and Smith-Fields had been watching a movie and she’d fallen asleep, and that she’d stopped breathing and was bleeding from her nose. Before that, Smith-Fields and LaFountain had been drinking tequila, the police report says. After she returned, she went to the bathroom for several minutes, then came back and fell asleep. The brother she met, Lakeem Jetter, told Rolling Stone last week that his sister showed no signs of intoxication when he saw her.

Source: Huffington Post January 25, 2022 21:55 UTC