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PHOENIX<\/strong> – The family of Suzanne Delgado, a 26-year-old mother of two, has initiated a legal battle by filing a $15 million notice of claim<\/strong><\/a> against the city of Phoenix<\/strong><\/a> and the Phoenix Police Department.<\/p>\n The family alleges detectives prematurely closed the investigation into her death as an overdose and overlooked evidence of foul play.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Delgado was found dead at a house near [Insert Location Here] on March 10. While police ruled the death an overdose, the family believes a man from her past may have killed her and demanded a full investigation.<\/p>\n Police acknowledged they had been to the house before for drug-related calls.<\/p>\n The family\u2019s attorney, Cash Fazal, said the police investigation was biased from the outset and cited several issues, including alleged racial bias, neglect, and lack of proper training.<\/p>\n “There were contusions and bruises found on her body that were consistent with self-defense,” Fazal said. He noted that police appeared to decide the cause of death early on.<\/p>\n “There was a bias in the investigation from the outset when officers arrived. It was already painted as a potential overdose, and that was strange because autopsy was not conducted at that point,” he said.<\/p>\n Delgado’s mother, Sylvia Delgado, spoke about the pain of telling her grandsons. “It was the hardest thing to tell them the next day that ‘your mommy wasn\u2019t coming back,'” she said.<\/p>\n The family is seeking the $15 million in damages but insists their primary goal is to set the record straight for Suzanne and her legacy.<\/p>\n “None of us are perfect. She wasn\u2019t perfect, but she was a human being. She was a person. She was a mother, a daughter, a sister, someone who was loved by the community,” said her sister, Vanessa Vasquez.<\/p>\n A makeshift shrine has been set up outside the Delgado home.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n The city has 60 days to respond to the notice of claim, which was issued last month. The Phoenix Police Department did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Phoenix<\/a>News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX – The family of Suzanne Delgado, a 26-year-old mother of two, has initiated a legal battle by…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":287940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,6082,1588,50,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-287939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-crime-publicsafety","12":"tag-maricopa-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115341546329841786","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/snapshot-48.jpg\")
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