The city of Boston is launching an external investigation into allegations of misconduct against a top aide to Mayor Michelle Wu.

In a letter to the Boston City Council, the head of the city's human resources department said her office is engaging an employment law firm to investigate allegations against Segun Idowu, the city’s chief of economic opportunity and inclusion. He is accused of being at the center of a violent argument between two city hall staffers last month.

“As we are following these steps, they're going to be conducted fully and appropriately,” Wu told WBUR after a community event Thursday. “The resulting actions will be based on what the findings are.”

The mayor did not say whether, based on the results, she would fire Idowu.

Critics have argued the Wu administration moved too quickly to fire the staffers, doing so to bury a scandal in an election year.

The saga began on May 15, when two city hall employees, Marwa Khudaynazar and Chulan Huang, were arrested by Boston police after fighting about Idowu’s alleged sexual advances to Khudaynazar. Khudaynazar and Huang were dating; Idowu oversees the department where Huang worked.

The city conducted an internal investigation that resulted in the decision to fire both staffers on May 20. The HR department did so because the staffers allegedly “invoke[d] their public positions to avoid consequences of an altercation with police,” Boston’s Chief People Officer Alex Lawrence wrote in the letter to the Boston City...

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