buster murdaugh is commenting publicly about the case. he released this statement, which reads in part, these baseless rumors of my involvement with stephen s death are false. i unequivocally deny any involvement in his death. and my heart goes out to the smith family. randi kaye, cnn, the los angeles unified school district has canceled school today. ahead of a three-day strike, set to begin in the coming hours. the service in plea international union, local 19, nine says monday, it would be proceeding with the strike after contract negotiations failed to reach a resolution. the strike is expected to impact hundreds of schools and 540,000 students. still, the district will try to support families with a services, including grab and go food sites. and schools that can provide student supervision. well, more than a dozen u.s. states have passed legislation,
he had no broken bones and evidence from the scene show stephen loosely tied shoes remained on his feet. if you get hit by vehicle, it s going fast enough, it s going to protect you. your shoes are just going to fall off under the best of circumstances. along with exhuming stephen s body, sandy s lawyers also hoped to gain access to her son s phone calls and text messages in the mountain hours, leading up to his death. a crime scene investigators also expected to take a fresh look at the forensics, and determine if he was struck by a vehicle or something else. sandy told me, last, year she has never accepted her son was the victim of a hidden run. what do you believe happened to your son? i believe he was beaten to death. the case file, obtained by cnn, shows even the lead investigator at the time didn t believe this was a hidden run. typically, you don t see the highway patrol work in a murder. , and that s what this is. there is no doubt, when we re not classifying this a
heartbreaking. you know, he was a human. , and he deserves justice. cindy smith, now, one step closer to what she hopes would be justice for her son. it s going to be hard to open an investigation after eight years. but, it has to start with an examination of his body. it s important to me because, i just love my son. and, since i couldn t protect him, i m going to fight for. i m stephen smith, a 19 year old with dreams of becoming a doctor was found dead about four a.m., july 8th, 2015 on sunday run road in hampton county. we at the time, a pathologist, said stephen was the victim of a hidden. run but, the south carolina highway patrol incident report noted they didn t find any vehicle debris or injuries consistent with someone being struck by a vehicle. according to the case, noticed even died from blunt force trauma to the head.