A Bumble date that ended in a death

The bulk of the information the family has received about the death of Ms. Smith-Fields comes from an incident report by the Bridgeport Police Department.

According to those records, her date, who is 37 and white, told investigators that he had first connected with Ms. Smith-Fields on Bumble, a popular dating app. She invited him over to her apartment after three days of chatting. On the evening of Dec. 11, they ate food, drank tequila with mixers, played games and began to watch a movie.

At one point, he told investigators, she went outside to meet with her brother, and when she returned, she went to the bathroom for 10 to 15 minutes.

Her date told investigators that they continued to watch the movie and Ms. Smith-Fields then fell asleep on the couch, and he carried her to her bedroom. He fell asleep beside her, he said, adding that when he woke up at 3 a.m. to use the bathroom, she was asleep and snoring.

But when he woke up again at 6:30 a.m., “she was lying on her right side, blood was coming out of her right nostril onto the bed, and she was not breathing,” he told investigators. He called 911.

“He was trembling and visibly shaken,” the responding officer, Carla Remele, said in the report. She found Ms. Smith-Fields lying on her back on the bedroom floor. Ms. Smith-Fields wasn’t breathing and she had dried blood in and around her right nostril, according to the police report, which also noted that $1,345 in cash was found in the apartment.

In the apartment, a pill and bloody bedsheets

When Ms. Fields arrived at her daughter’s apartment on Dec. 13, the landlord put the family in touch with Detective Cronin.