Members of the family of the late Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam, whose body was found floating in the Hudson River last week, said Wednesday reports she committed suicide have “no basis in reality” and called on any persons with knowledge of what happened in her final hours to step forward.

The statement from Abdus-Salaam’s family, released by a public relations firm it has retained, comes one day after police said they are investigating her death as “suspicious.”

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