Older Sister of Venus, Serena Killed

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Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Publication Date: 
Mon, 2003-09-15 03:00

LOS ANGELES, 15 September 2003 — An older sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams was shot early yesterday morning in Los Angeles, Fox news reported.

Police in Compton, a low-income neighborhood outside Los Angeles where the African-American athletic stars grew up, surrounded a house where three suspects armed with machine guns had barricaded themselves.

But when a 40-officer commando stormed the house, it was empty, Fox News said. The shooting, which occurred after an altercation about 1 a.m., killed Yetunde Price, 31, the oldest of the five Williams sisters. She was a nurse by training who operated a hair salon in the crime- ridden Compton neighborhood.

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