Crime & Safety
Woman Killed, Another Beaten in Lawrenceville
Gwinnett police say a man discovered the victims after noticing the back door of his home had been forced open.
Updated 11:05 a.m., March 9, 2011.
Gwinnett police are investigating the homicide of a woman in her 70s and the beating of a woman Tuesday in her 30s in a home on High Sierra Drive in unincorporated Lawrenceville.
According to a news release from Cpl. Edwin Ritter of the Gwinnett County Police Department, a man in his 20s told police he discovered the victims after returning home to the 1500 block of High Sierra Drive around 3:30 p.m. and noticing the back door had been forced open.
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Police said Wednesday that 76-year-old Alma B. Ercolano was found dead inside a home at 1517 High Sierra Drive.
The man found his girlfriend alive in the house with blunt-force trauma around her body. He found the older woman dead in another part of the house. The surviving victim was taken by county fire officials to the and treated for non-life-threatening injuries, according to the release.
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According to Gwinnett police, the Medical Examiner’s Office has not determined the cause of death for Ercolano.
The case remains under investigation.
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