The Sunday News
A criminal investigation has been launched in the case of Bobby Kristina, with police considering the possibility foul play may have been involved before she was found face down in a bathtub.
According to TMZ the probe, said to be centred around her boyfriend Nick Gordon, began after authorities allegedly found suspicious injuries on the 21-year-old when she was hospitalised on yesterday morning. She remains in a coma in Emory University Hospital after she was found unconscious by Gordon and friend Max Lomas in her Roswell, Georgia home.
The site reported that police are looking into claims there was an altercation between Bobbi and Gordon, who are believed to have a history of domestic violence, in the hours before the incident.
Lomas also alleges that Gordon cleaned up blood in his house before paramedics and police arrived at the scene.
On Friday last week it was revealed that Bobbi could have been submerged in the bath for between 10 and 15 minutes before she was found.
“It seems like it might’ve been 10 or 15 minutes that she must have been alone,” Lomas’ attorney Ashleigh Merhant told E! News. “But we don’t know at what point she actually ended up in the tub during that time.”
Lomas found Bobbi Kristina after he went looking for her when a cable man knocked at the door, E! reported. When she did not respond, he went in and found her, his attorney said.
She was rushed to hospital and her family has remained tight-lipped about her condition, but last Thursday, her cousin took to Instagram to provide friends a heartbreaking update.
“Though it seems the odds are against her,” Jerod Brown wrote, “though doctors don’t see any hope for change, though we might want to play detective and find out how she got there, though it looks impossible for her to stand again STILL PRAY FOR BK.”
Last Thursday, DailyMail.com learned that Bobbi’s life-support machine was switched off.
“The plug on Bobbi Kristina has been pulled,” a police source said.
It is possible for a patient to survive despite artificial assistance being withdrawn.
Bobby Brown did not respond directly to the claims but slammed reports saying that the family were preparing to say goodbye to his youngest daughter.
“This is false, just as is the vast majority of the other reporting that is currently taking place,” he said in a statement last Thursday.
“If we issued a statement every time the media published a false report regarding this matter, that’s all we would be doing 24 hours a day.”
The last official word on Bobbi’s condition from the family came last Tuesday when they said in a statement that she was “fighting for her life and is surrounded by immediate family”.
On Thursday last week, he briefly told Access Hollywood that his daughter was “good”. He appeared tired and his eyes were red as if he had been crying, the programme reported.
“We’re praying,” he added.
Bobbi’s “devastated” grandmother, gospel singer Cissy Houston, mother of Whitney, was also seen arriving at the hospital, according to Radar Online, having flown in from her New Jersey home.
“Cissy was so traumatised losing Whitney and the pain is still raw from that,” a source told the website.
“Watching Krissy in hospital and in coma is almost more than she can handle. This is almost too much sadness for her to bear.”
Meanwhile, Houston’s mentor Clive Davis says he’s been in touch with the family and is praying for Bobbi. Davis said he’s offered his support and and “they’re so grateful.’ristina Brown. — AFP
