Suspect Arrested in Killing of Sister of Tennis Stars Venus, Serena

[demdave]

COMPTON, Calif. (AP) - A 24-year-old man was arrested for investigation of murder in the fatal shooting of the older sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department announced early Monday.

Price had been sitting with a man in a sport utility vehicle when "somehow they had become involved in a confrontation with the local residents," said sheriff's Deputy Richard Pena.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAA0MHGMKD.html

[bleedingheart]

1. How sad

"Venus, eight years younger than Price, and Serena, a little more than nine years younger, often spoke about the gunshots they heard as they played tennis on public courts in Compton. When they turned professional as teenagers, they moved with their parents to Florida, in part for the courts and the coaching and in part to escape the violence. "

No one should grow up in an area where gunshots are routinely heard...

[dofus]

2. I just now, reading this thread

have learned of this murder. We live in the country with the highest peacetime murder rate in the world. And some people want to export our way of life?