LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Yetunde Price, the oldest sister and personal assistant of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, was shot dead early on Sunday, according to Raymone Baine, publicist for Serena.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Richard Pena said the shooting took place just outside the suburb of Compton, where the Williams sisters grew up, shortly after midnight.
"This is extremely devastating news," Bain said. "They are a very close-knit family."
Pena said the Special Weapons Team has surrounded the location where suspects have barracaded themselves. The shooting happened in the 1100 block of Greenleaf Boulevard in Compton, he said.
Venus and Serena Williams are the youngest of five daughters of Richard and Oracene Williams.
COMPTON, Calif. -- An older sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams was shot to death early Sunday, authorities said.
Yetunde Price, 31, of Corona, 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 and "somehow they had become involved in a confrontation with the local residents," Deputy Richard Pena said. He did not have details of the confrontation.
Price was shot in the upper torso. Deputies on patrol heard the gunshots and went to the scene, where they found Price. She died at a hospital.
Neighbor Robert Miller, 49, said he heard about a dozen gunshots.
The man who was with Price would be interviewed, Pena said.
At about 6 a.m., about 40 deputies surrounded a home on Greenleaf Boulevard where they believed three people involved in the shooting were barricaded, Pena said.
However, the house was empty when they entered it about six hours later.
Price was one of five Williams sisters who spent their early years in Compton, a crime- and poverty-ridden community where gang bullets claim many lives.
The family later moved to Florida. Their father and mother, Richard and Oracene, are divorced, and Price used her mother's maiden name.
Oracene was flying to Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon.
She worked as a personal assistant to her famous sisters. She was identified as a registered nurse and a business management major in the 2003 media guide for the WTA Tour. Price owned her own beauty salon in the L.A. area and was a mother of three children.
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. The WTA is expected to release a statement later Sunday.
Williams sister shooting: Man held 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."
Price, who was divorced, leaves 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.
ID:D2l66De7 >>167 = >>188さんへ >>>コンプトンには幼少の頃住んでたけど、 >>>その後一家揃ってカリフォルニアに引っ越した。 >>コンプトンはCAじゃないの? >そうなの?じゃあcoronaって言い直すわ。 アナタ、アフォ?コロナもCAだって書いてあるじゃん。 The family later moved to Floridaってことは、 一家揃って引っ越したのは、カリフォルニアでも無く、 コロナでも無く、フロリダでしょ? 49の英文をリンクしたのはアナタだけど英語読めないんだ。w
コンプトンって思いっきり危険なエリアだよ。 数年前まで、LAに住んでたけど、 夫に、絶対に足を踏み入れるなって言われた。 Compton is a poor residential, high-crime city, ranked the 8th most dangerous place in USA and 1st in California. Even the ex-mayor is in jail.
Killed in a shooting Sunday, 31-year-old Yetunde Price, who took her mother's maiden name a few years ago after the parents' divorce, was a registered nurse who also owned a beauty salon. She was divorced and had three children, and had moved to Corona, Calif., 40 miles from where she grew up and died in gang-infested Compton.
All five daughters had lived with Richard and Oracene in Compton, a suburb of Los Angeles, until about a decade ago, when they moved to Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., to expose Venus and Serena to better tennis instruction.
>>コンプトンって思いっきり危険なエリアだよ。 >そうでもない区域もあるって聞いたけど? じゃ、行ってみな。ヒスパニックとブラックだらけで、怖い雰囲気を かもし出していて、口論に巻き込まれただけで、銃弾が撃ち込まれる エリアだから。ちなみに、こういう地域でございます。↓ Compton is a poor residential, high-crime city,ranked the 8th most dangerous place in USA &1st in California. Even the ex-mayor is in jail. 英語苦手そうだから、適当翻訳してやるよ。 コンプトンは、貧しい人が住み、犯罪率が非常に高い地域。 U.Sでは、最も危険な地域ランキング8番目に、 CAでは、一番危険な地域として知られている。 なんせ前市長もジェイルに入っているくらいですから。。。
Williams' sister dies in shooting by ROBIN YAPP and ANNETTE WITHERIDGE, Daily Mail 15th September 2003
Venus and Serena Williams are in mourning today after their eldest sister was murdered. Yetunde Price, 31, a personal assistant to her superstar sisters, was shot dead after a confrontation with youths in the crime-ridden Los Angeles suburb of Compton, where the Williams family grew up. A 24-year-old man has been arrested by police and jailed without bail. Yetunde Price was with her boyfriend in a white four-wheel drive vehicle when the argument broke out in the early hours of yesterday. A neighbour said he heard about a dozen gunshots. Miss Price was rushed to hospital but pronounced dead a short time later from wounds to the upper body. Her boyfriend was uninjured. Police later surrounded a bungalow where three suspects, armed with an AK47 assault rifle, were thought to have barricaded themselves in. More than 40 officers circled the property and heavily-armed SWAT teams and hostage negotiators were called in. They stormed the house just after midday - some 12 hours after the shooting - but it was empty. The suspects are now believed to have fled immediately after the shooting. Miss Price, a divorced mother-of-three who retained her married name, was seen by British TV audiences at Wimbledon this year when she joined the family entourage to see Venus and Serena reach the Ladies' final. .
During the tournament she shared a house in the south London suburb with sisters Isha, a 29-year-old lawyer, Lyndrea, a 25-year-old actress and singer, and their mother Oracene. Venus and Serena's agent, Carlos Fleming, said the family was heading for Los Angeles. Serena has been in Toronto to film an appearance in a cable TV drama series. Family lawyer Keven Davis said: "They are all devastated. It's a fluid situation and a lot of reports out there may be inaccurate. We are asking people to respect the family's privacy and are trying to get as much information as we can. "I just talked to Yetunde Friday. She was great. She was upbeat, in a great mood." Serena's publicist Raymone Baine said: "This is extremely devastating news. They are a very close-knit family." Venus and Serena's rise to stardom from humble beginnings is one of sport's most remarkable stories.
Under the watchful eye of their father Richard they have come to dominate women's tennis and today they are said to be worth £200million. While she often accompanied her sisters around the world, styling their hair for celebrity appearances, Miss Price led a far more modest existence. She lived in a £50,000 bungalow in Corona, a suburb close to Compton, and owned her own hair salon, proudly displaying pictures of Venus and Serena on the walls. Despite her lack of wealth, she insisted on paying her own air fare whenever she flew to see Venus and Serena. All five sisters and their mother are 『Jehovah's witnesses』 and Miss Price always said she had a better life than her famous siblings and that she felt no envy. As well as a motive for the shooting, investigators were trying to determine why Miss Price and her companion were in the area. "Right now there are more questions than answers," said a police spokesman. Los Angeles sheriff Scott Butler said police on patrol near the shooting had raced to the scene after hearing several shots. "Yetunde and a male companion, who we believe was her boyfriend, had been in a white SUV when they became involved in a confrontation with some local residents . "The confrontation led to gunfire. She was shot in the upper torso and was found by deputies in the street. She was later pronounced dead at a local hospital." He confirmed that homicide investigators were in vestigating. "They are at the scene, talking to witnesses, trying to determine exactly what happened," he said. Richard and Oracene Williams went through a messy and bitter divorce last year and Wimbledon was one of the few occasions since that the whole family has been seen together. Venus and Serena both missed the recent US Open championship through injury
http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/williamsdivorce.htm The tennis sisters were raised as Jehovah's Witnesses by their mother. They were also home-schooled by her. The father is as far as I know not a Witness and is only interested in their tennis careers.
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/archives/00000826.html It's like another day for me,'' Williams said, wearing a hairband glittering with costume jewels. ``I am a Jehovah's Witness so we don't really believe in celebrations or birthdays.
ふーん、知らないのにギリシャ神話から取ったって流したのね。 ていうかさ、アナタ、彼女達の名前と、オラシーン母の名前は、 リチャード父が、ギリシャ神話からとってつけたってガセを流したけど リチャード父の娘は、ヴィーナスとセリーナだけだよ。Yetunde・ Isha・Lyndreaは、リチャード父とは血が繋がってないじゃん。 ウソつき!! 下記参照 http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusspt/ap09-14-123105.asp?sp t=ten#body All five sisters are the daughters of Oracene Williams, who was previously married to the late Yusef A.K. Rasheed. She later married Richard Williams, father of Venus, 23, and Serena, who will be 22 next week. 5人の娘は、オラシーンの子供だが、リチャード・ウイリアムスの娘は セリーナとヴィーナスのみ。
へぇ〜〜。またウソ書いちゃったね。Yetundeは最近、高校時代からの 友達と一緒に、レイクウッドにビューティサロンを開いたって書いて あるよ。レイクウッドは、コンプトンエリアとは言えないけどなぁ。 下記参照 http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusspt/ap09-14-123105.asp?sp t=ten#body She recently opened a hair salon in nearby Lakewood with a friend from high school
『あの段階』(アナタがガセを流した時)では、色んな情報なんか 流れてなかった。アナタは、>>167で、『その後一家揃ってカリフォル ニアに引っ越した。』 >>188 で『じゃあcoronaって言い直すわ。』 ってガセネタを流したんだけど、>>49で、『一家揃ってフロリダの パームビーチに引っ越した:The family later moved to Florida』 『コロナのYetunde Price 31才:Yetunde Price, 31, of Corona』 って、書かれてるじゃん。ウソつき野郎! 英語が読めない=ガセを流したからって、言い訳すんなよ。