Did 67-year-old woman kill 61-year-old woman fighting in a Compton park?

Detectives and family members of a 61-year-old woman fatally injured during a fight with a woman, 67, in a Compton park appealed Tuesday for anyone who witnessed the assault to come forward.

Patricia Davis was was the victim at about 6:50 p.m. Aug. 4 as she sat in Tragniew Park at 2121 W. Alondra Blvd. Compton Station sheriff’s deputies dispatched to the park found her on the ground and unresponsive.

“Detectives discovered that a group of women were at a local park when a 67-year-old woman became annoyed with another woman, arguing that she was too loud,” Deputy Guillermina Saldana of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau said then.

“The argument quickly became physical with both punching each other and one being hit with a cane. Both women ended up on the ground where the altercation continued. The 67-year-old suspect got up and walked away while the other complained she could not breathe.”

Davis was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

The suspect, whose name was withheld, was booked on suspicion of murder, but was later released from custody “pending additional investigation,” the sheriff’s department reported.

“She is the suspect that did this,” sheriff’s Lt. John Corina said at a news conference this morning. “And she admits to some of (what happened), but … we are just trying to corroborate exactly the circumstances of what happened.”

–City News Service 

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