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At issue were allegations that Detective Angel Llanos failed to properly notify Brenda...

The family’s lawyer said the meeting was “restorative,” but the family still wants...

Handling of the investigations into their deaths. >> i just want everybody to know i love my daughter, and we need justice. we need answers. >> reporter: 23-year-old college student lauren smith fields and 53-year-old brenda hee ralls both died december 12th. police in both cases failed to notify the families of their deaths. smith fields family attorney saying they instead learned she died from her landlord, who left a note on her apartment door. smith-fields died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, alcohol, and prescription drugs according to the medical examiner. her death was reported t...

Weeks after smith-fields's death, her family had to force police to collect evidence, including a used condom, a bloody bed sheet, and a pill used in a sedative. bridgeport police say her death is being investigated as a crime. cnn has not identifying her date, an older-white man because he has not been named a suspect. >> you have to be interested in the last person she was with before she died. >> if it had been the other way around, and had been a white woman and a black man, you cannot tell me that the black man wouldn't have been arrested or questioned or his phone taken. >> reporter: mea...

Separate incidents last month, slammed the police department's handling of the investigations into their deaths. >> i just want everybody to know i love my daughter, and we need justice. we need answers. >> reporter: 23-year-old college student lauren smith fields and 53-year-old brenda hee ralls both died december 12th. police in both cases failed to notify the families of their deaths. smith fields family toorp saying they instead learned she died from her landlord, who left a note on her apartment door. smith-fields died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, alcohol, and prescription drugs...