WOMAN ARRESTED IN LA MESA FOR MURDER OF GREAT-AUNT IN TIERRASANTA

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December 17, 2011 (La Mesa)—Tiffany Burney, 23, of San Diego was arrested this morning on Parkside Drive in La Mesa by San Diego Police homicide detectives. She is charged with the murder of her grandmother’s sister, Daisy Mae Hayes, 74.

Hayes was found shot to death in her home on Gabacho Drive in Tierrasanta on Wednesday evening, December 14. Family members discovered her body after they were unable to reach her by phone and went to check on her welfare.

Burney has been booked into the Las Colinas Women’s Detention Facility, where she has been charged with murder. The investigation is continuing. Police will not release the motive for the crime at this time, Lieutenant Ernie Herbert indicated.
 


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