“I do not believe that my daughter committed suicide,” Calvina Strothers said Wednesday during an audio press conference. “That’s nothing I’m willing to entertain.”
Miller, 16, was found dead on April 18 on West Central Street in Hopkinton. According to the death certificate, which was released Tuesday, the manner of death was suicide and the cause was asphyxiation by hanging.
Strothers on Wednesday was joined at the press conference by nationally known civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump; David Johns, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition; Tito Jackson, a former member of the Boston City Council; and Monica Cannon-Grant, CEO and founder of Violence In Boston Inc. They believe Miller's death was murder.