Los Angeles
Yetunde Price, the half sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, was shot to death this week in the Los Angeles suburb of Compton. Price, 31, and a companion were sitting in a sport utility vehicle when they got into a dispute with some people on the street. Someone opened fire, and Price was hit in the chest. Police arrested a suspect, 24-year-old Aaron Hammer, shortly after Price died. The shooting occurred in a violent neighborhood, about a mile from the public tennis courts where Venus and Serena Williams played as children. The famous pair moved away as teenagers, but remained close to Price, a registered nurse and mother of three. “She was our nucleus and our rock,” the family said in a statement. “This is the saddest day of our lives.”
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