"Ouch. Sorry I brought it up." That sounded traumatic, to say the least. A lot of her friends and acquaintances at home had ended up in various juvenile or meta detention halls, but not dead.
A subject change was good. "My friend was a PI... sort of." 'World's Greatest Detective' probably counted as a private investigator, she'd think. "It was fun, though I don't think I'm going to be doing that here."