PICTURED: Bumble date of dead Connecticut woman, 23, who claims she died ...

The 'older white man' who was on a Bumble date with a 23-year-old Connecticut woman before she was found dead after a night of drinking has been revealed as a 37-year-old design engineer who she knew for three days. 

Lawyers are now calling for an independent investigation into the death of Lauren  Smith-Fields who was found dead in her Bridgeport apartment on December 12, 2021, by Matthew LaFountain, 37, who she met on the Bumble dating app. Her cause of death is not known. 

He works as a design engineer at Connecticut-based Times Microwave System - a company which manufactures cables for the military, aerospace and telecommunications companies. 

Smith-Fields and LaFountain had been hanging out and drinking at her apartment on the night of the incident, according to the police report obtained by Dailymail.com. 

The family of Smith-Fields are suing local police after becoming frustrated with how they are handling the case, attorney Darnell Crosland told Dailymail.com, alleging the detective in charge of her case told them to stop contacting him. 

Crosland also said that he was uninterested in pursuing Smith-Field's date as a suspect, whom they described as an 'older white man.' 

'They're waiting for the autopsy before questioning anyone,' he said. 'But there are parts of the investigation that can be done without the autopsy. They can obtain the messages from Bumble. But that's not being done.' 

The report also revealed that Smith-Fields asked LaFountain for $40 to get her nails done and then to meet her at her residence where the pair reportedly took 'shots of tequila'.

LaFountain claims Smith-Fields became ill and threw up in her bathroom before the two continued drinking tequila mixed drinks. They reportedly played games, ate food and began watching a movie when Smith-Fields allegedly received a text, went outside to get something from her brother and then, upon her return, went into her bathroom for 10 to 15 minutes.

Her date told police 'he thought it was odd, but didn't feel it was his place to say anything as he didn't know her that well,' the incident report reportedly reads. 

Afterwards, the pair continued to watch the movie and finished the bottle of tequila before she fell asleep on the couch. LaFountain allegedly carried her to her bedroom and the two went to bed.

He claims he woke up around 3am to use the bathroom and found Smith-Fields snoring. Then, around 6:30am he reportedly found her lying on her right side with blood coming out of her right nostril and not breathing. He then called 911. 

Once police arrived on scene, Smith-Fields' landlord was contacted. The landlord did not have family contact information so it wasn't until days later when Shantell Fields visited the unit that she learned her daughter had died.  

'When I asked the officer about the guy, he said he was a very nice guy and they weren't looking into him anymore. It was almost like he was sticking up for him and it seemed weird to hear that from a detective,' her brother Lakeem Jetter told NBC Connecticut.

'He told me directly on the phone to stop calling him and hung up in my face, it was just like total disrespect, like that's what you tell a family that's going through grief and trying to find answers?'

Jetter also alleged police were not thorough in their initial crime scene investigation, noting that while officers confiscated her phone, passport and $1,345 in cash, they neglected to collect other pieces of potential evidence. He told Rolling Stone they found a used condom in the trash, lubricant, bloody sheets on her bed and an unidentified pill in the unit.