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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: PinkTowelGirl on September 14, 2003, 01:02:18 PM
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COMPTON, Calif. (Sept. 14) - An older sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams was shot to death early Sunday, authorities said.
Yetunde Price, 31, was shot shortly after midnight in the Los Angeles suburb following a ''confrontation'' with some residents, Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Scott Butler said.
No arrests were immediately made.
Price was with a man in a sports utility vehicle when the two became involved in a confrontation, Deputy Richard Pena said. He did not have details of the confrontation.
Price was shot in the upper torso. Deputies on patrol heard gunshots and went to the scene, where they found Price.
Price, of Corona, was pronounced dead at a hospital.
The man who was with Price would be interviewed, Pena said.
At about 6 a.m., about 40 deputies surrounded a home where they believed three people involved in the shooting were barricaded, Pena said. However, when police entered the house six hours later, it was empty.
Price was one of five Williams sisters who spent their early years in Compton, a crime- and poverty-ridden community.
The family later moved to Florida. Their father and mother, Richard and Oracene, are divorced, and Price used her mother's maiden name.
She worked as a personal assistant to her sisters. She was identified as a registered nurse and a business management major in the 2003 media guide for the WTA Tour.
Carlos Fleming, who represents Venus and Serena Williams, did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
WTA Tour spokesman Darrell Fry said he had no immediate comment.
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Rest In Peace Yetunde Price
I thought that it was Serena (since your topic is kinda wierd wrote)
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R.I.P...
anyway I also thought you were talking about Serena...your topic confused me when I read it :-\
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Damn... that's really messed up... R.I.P
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i think they said she got beat to death not shot to death.but either way R.I.P
end gigaganon
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just heard about this on the news, so I knew you weren't talking about serena but it sounds like you are in the subject
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dam RIP Yetunde Price
i thought u were talkin about Serena 2
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yeah i forgot to put "of"
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I wonder if one of the sisters will shout OUT at the funeral.
nar for real, R.I.P, its a fucked up way to die.
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Damn...Rest In Peace.
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Damn... that's really messed up... R.I.P