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Whitney Houston’s Daughter Remembered: Bobbi Kristina Brown’s Death An Accident Or Murder By Nick Gordon?

Published on: July 26, 2016 at 11:46 AM
By Lindsay McCane

It’s been exactly one year since Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown passed away, and on the anniversary of her death, her fans, friends and family members are taking the time to remember the young woman, who was only 22-years-old when she died.

According to E! News, Brown was found unconscious and face-down in a bathtub at her Georgia home, which she shared with her boyfriend, Nick Gordon, on January 31, 2015. Gordon and two others were said to have been at the home when Brown was discovered. Gordon reportedly performed CPR, while one of the other visitors called 911.

After the police arrived at the home, Bobbi Kristina Brown, who was the daughter of R&B singer Bobby Brown and the late Whitney Houston, was immediately rushed to the hospital. She was later transferred to Peachtree Christian Hospice in Duluth, Georgia, where she remained in a coma for seven months until her death on July 26, 2015. Brown’s death was later revealed to have been the result of of Lobar pneumonia, which was caused by Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy and water immersion combined with mixed drug intoxication.

“Our loss is unimaginable,” Bobbi’s father said in a statement to the celebrity news site last July. “We thank everyone for the prayers for Krissy and our family as we mourn my baby girl.”

“The passing of Bobbi Kristina is devastating to Nick and our family,” Michele Gordon, Nick’s mother, added in a separate statement. “Nick loved and cared for Krissi deeply, and he has suffered greatly each and every day they’ve been apart. Nick and our family are in mourning, and we ask that you respect our privacy. Our thoughts and prayers are with both the Houstons and the Browns during this difficult time.”

Prior to her passing, Bobbi Kristina Brown’s family accused Gordon of being responsible for her death, and filed a $40 million lawsuit against him. They were reportedly seeking punitive damages for Bobbi based on “allegations including assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress and conversion.” After her death, Bobbi’s family filed a 13-page amendment to the lawsuit, alleging wrongful death and seeking $10 million. They allege Nick and Bobbi had been fighting on the night she was found unconscious and had called her a “w****” and a “b****” and accusing her of cheating on him. He then gave her a “toxic cocktail rendering her unconscious,” before he “put her face down in a tub of cold water causing her to suffer brain damage.”

According to Entertainment Tonight, the wrongful death civil lawsuit reads that “Ms. Brown died due to a violent altercation with Defendant (Gordon) after which he placed her in a bathtub, unconscious, after he injected her with a toxic mixture.”

It has been nearly a year since the lawsuit was initially filed, and still no charges have been filed against Gordon. His lawyers have referred to the wrongful death lawsuit as “slanderous and meritless.” Bobby Brown’s attorney, Craig Terrett, spoke to Entertainment Tonight earlier this month to ask where the lawsuit currently stands. Terret said they were currently in a “holding pattern while waiting on a judge to rule on a renewed motion in the case and he was hopeful the case may have a ruling in a month.” Bobby said he petitioned to be added as a plaintiff in May.

Nick Gordon has continuously denied the accusations, and gave his first television interview in September, 2015, on The Real.

“We prayed and hoped for six months for something better to happen,” Gordon said at the time. “But when God calls you, he calls you. I’m pretty sure her mother [Whitney Houston] was … had a part with like, ‘Come on, let’s get her up here’ in the best way possible. She was not comfortable by herself I guess and she just called my daughter with her.”

[Photo via AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File]

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