Fort Worth mother still searching for answers after son’s body found in Lake Como

A Fort Worth mother is searching for answers after her son’s body was found in Lake Como last week.

Brandon Fields, 23, was a “super empath” who felt deeply for others and often took on their problems as his own, his mother, Victoria Fields, said.

Brandon loved his brothers, saw no one as a stranger and was proud of his Fort Worth roots, Victoria Fields said.

“Fort Worth was his town. No matter where he was, he always wanted to come back,” the mother said.

She added that, in the days before his death, Brandon had found a T-shirt online that read “When I die, take my body back to the Funk,” a reference to Fort Worth’s “Funkytown” nickname.

Her son was “fighting for his sobriety” after having been addicted to methamphetamine, Fields said, and had been seen at a treatment center shortly before his death, seeking help to prevent a relapse.

Over a week after her son’s death, Victoria Fields said she still doesn’t know what happened to him.

She said he left home at around 8 p.m. on the night of Aug. 2 to go to a convenience store and never came back.

Fields said police took a missing persons report via phone, but never sent an officer to her home or gave her an update on whether the report had been filed.

An autopsy was performed, but the cause and manner of death are pending and the report is incomplete, according to online records from the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office.

“All I know is his urn is supposed to be black with blue trim,” Victoria Fields said.

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