College athlete Lauren McCluskey, [left], was shot dead by her sex offender ex-boyfriend Melvin Brown [right], last October, in a school parking lot. He killed himself afterwards

The parents of a University of Utah student who was killed by her criminal ex-boyfriend after having her dozens of calls to police ignored have spoken out to slam the college’s claims that her death could not have been prevented.
Lauren McCluskey, 21, was shot dead in October by her ex-boyfriend, Melvin Brown, in a parking lot.
She had reported Brown to the police for extorting her with revenge porn after they broke up.
Lauren was on the phone to her parents when he grabbed her and dragged her into a car to kill her.

          First responders secure the scene in the parking lot of the University of Utah campus after Lauren McCluskey was shot 

Now, Lauren’s grieving parents Matt and Jill McCluskey are speaking out in the hope that no other young woman’s calls for help go ignored.

In an interview with Good Morning America on Friday morning, they described the horror of listening as Rowland grabbed Lauren and calling 911 immediately.
‘I was on the phone with her….she was coming home from class. All of a sudden, she yells, “No, no, no!”‘
‘And then the line was still open. And then Matt called 9-1-1. I … I yelled to him and he called 9-1-1,’ Jill told ABC’s Amy Robach in an interview.
For Matt McCluskey the greatest tragedy surrounding his daughter’s death “was the unfairness of it.”

Lauren McCluskey’s parents Jill and Matt appeared on GMA on Friday to discuss her murder and how it could have been prevented with greater diligence by campus authorities

She said that in the weeks beforehand, Lauren had told her she felt like she was ‘bothering’ the local and campus police with her complaints about Brown.


He was attempting to extort her and blackmail her with revenge porn.
Jill, who has records of all the times her daughter called the police about him, said she encouraged her to keep pursuing it.
‘She said, “It feels like I’m bothering them,” because she called … she was calling so much.

‘They seemed to show no curiosity about his person who had lied about his age, his name, his … he was a sex offender.
‘And then they found out that he’s also a felon. They should’ve investigated.
‘They would’ve very quickly found his parole status in one call and it would … we wouldn’t be sitting here today,’ he said.
The university said it had identified ‘areas of deficiency in the university’s systems and processes and made 30 recommendations for ways to improve them.
‘The university is acting immediately to correct the deficiencies identified in the report,’ it added in a statement.