The son of a San Francisco Bay Area woman who committed suicide after being released from the hospital has filed a claim against the city of Antioch and the hospital that treated her.

It's the first step toward a lawsuit and comes about a year after the April 2015 death of Afroza Chowdhury, who was brought to the Contra Costa County's Regional Medical Center in Martinez for a psychological evaluation.

According to an Antioch police report, Chowdhury was cleared and put in a cab to go home — a place where she did not want to return.

She never made it. Authorities said Chowdhury jumped to her death from a rolling taxi along Highway 4.

Police were earlier called to Chowdhury's home after she got into an argument with her ex-husband.

Her son, Tony Ahmed, said he had asked the responding o

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