Post by tdallasw on Sept 15, 2003 10:42:35 GMT -5
COMPTON, Calif. (Reuters) - Authorities have arrested a 24-year-old man in the shooting death of the eldest sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams in a poor Los Angeles suburb, police said Monday.
Aaron Michael Hammer was being held without bail as a suspect in the death Sunday of Yetunde Price, 31, in Compton, an area known for gang violence about 20 miles south of Los Angeles, the L.A. County Sheriff's Office said.
Hammer will face a first-degree murder charge at his arraignment, which was expected Tuesday, sheriff's deputy Johnie Jones said. No further details were available.
Price was shot 12:15 a.m. Sunday outside a house that witnesses described as abandoned, L.A. sheriff's deputy Bill Spear said. There had been a confrontation between neighborhood residents and Price, who was riding in a white sports utility vehicle with another man, Rolland Wormley, 28, Spear said.
Wormley, who was not injured, was later arrested on a parole violation, the sheriff's office said Monday. It was unclear who had been driving the vehicle, it said.
Price died of gunshot wounds to her upper body a short time after arriving at a local hospital, sheriff's deputy Alba Yates said.
The mother of three owned a Los Angeles-area beauty salon and worked as a personal assistant to her two sisters, Williams' family attorney Keven Davis told Reuters.
"Obviously all in the family are very devastated and shocked by this news," Davis said, adding that family members were on their way to Los Angeles.
...2003 has been one of those years hasn't it?