LAKEWOOD, Colo. — Denver metro LGBTQ+ advocacy groups joined friends of Jax Gratton on Monday night to demand an independent oversight committee investigation into the Denver woman’s disappearance and death.

The community members are calling for an investigation without ties to the Lakewood Police Department, which they worry is mishandling the case. They also want that investigation to look into the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office.

Last week, Denver7 obtained Gratton’s autopsy report , which lists her cause and manner of death as “undetermined” because of the body’s advanced stage of decomposition. Gratton was found in a narrow space between two buildings in Lakewood in June, two months after she was reported missing.

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