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Williams sister shooting: Man held
« on: Sep 15^th, 2003, 8:50am »

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Williams sister shooting: Man held
Monday, September 15, 2003 Posted: 7:43 AM EDT (1143 GMT)

LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- A 24-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of the eldest sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams.

Yetunde Price, 31, who was her sisters' personal assistant, was shot in the chest early Sunday after she and a companion were involved in a dispute in a suburb of Los Angeles, police said.

Aaron Michael Hammer was seized on Sunday night and detained without bail, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Richard Pena said.

The companion, identified as 28-year-old Rolland Wormley, was also held on a parole violation charge for his involvement in the incident, Deputy Pena said.

Witnesses told investigators that Wormley and Price were involved in a dispute with "local residents" which led to gunfire, Pena said. They then sped away in their sport utility vehicle, witnesses said.

Price died a short time later at a local hospital of a gunshot wound to her upper torso, Butler said.

A spokeswoman for the Williams family described them as devastated.

The shooting occurred in the 1100 block of Greenleaf Boulevard in Compton, the Los Angeles suburb where the sisters grew up. Police were appealing for witnesses to come forward.

Authorities said they found an assault rifle at the crime scene and that as many as 20 shots were possibly fired.

Price was the eldest of five daughters of Richard Williams and Oracene Price. She accompanied Serena Williams to the ESPY Awards in Los Angeles in July, where the tennis star won awards for Best Female Tennis Player and Best Female Athlete. Serena thanked all of her sisters, calling her eldest sibling "'Tende."

Yetunde Price was the tennis stars' half sister, the daughter of their mother and her first husband.

The slain woman, who was divorced, leaves behind three children. Friends said she worked as a registered nurse and at a hair salon.

Residents of the neighborhood who spoke to CNN said the area can be a rough place after the sun goes down.

Ruth Grant, 51, who has lived on the street for more than two decades, said heard the gunfire shortly after midnight, and then went to sleep.

When she awoke in the morning to prepare for a Sunday school class, she saw helicopters flying overhead and dozens of police in the street.

Such occurrences are not routine, she said. "Every once in a while, you hear cars going by burning rubber and shooting, but that's not often," she said.

-- CNN Correspondent Paul Vercammen contributed to this report.

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To say: "Residents of the neighborhood who spoke to CNN said the area can be a rough place after the sun goes down. " .......is putting it mildly. What on earth was the sister of the Williams doing there?

She was their assistant and should have been making enough money to live else where. This is a tragedy and a freaking mystery.......

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