The family of a Lawrenceville co-ed who was found dead on the campus of Valdosta State University now has retained an attorney and a private investigator.
It’s been more than a week since Jasmine Benjamin was found dead on a couch in a study room on campus. The Central Gwinnett High School graduate would have turned 18 on Saturday.
Instead, her mother Judith Brogdon and step-father James Jackson will bury their daughter on Thursday.
Now they’ve hired Decatur attorney Tom Stubbs to act as a go-between for them and the media.
“(We’re) looking at all the circumstances that arose with her death to see if there’s any issues that need to be addressed in any other way,” he told reporters Tuesday.
Stubbs is working with Lawrenceville private investigator Robin Martinelli and her team of investigators who are also doing their own probing of the case.
“We are conducting an investigation along with the police,” says Martinelli, who is using social media as one way to look for clues.
She says a couple of her investigators are also in Valdosta working behind the police there.
“There’s a lot of facts which need to be developed and you develop them through the services of good private investigator,” says Stubbs.
Jackson told WSB’s Sandra Parrish earlier this week that he and his wife are frustrated with the slow pace of the police investigation.
Officers have spent the past few days interviewing students who have returned from the holiday break.