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Woman beaten to death with walker; 37-year-old arrested for first-degree murder
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BATON ROUGE - Police have arrested a woman accused of beating a woman over the head with a walker at a half-way house nestled inside a Baton Rouge neighborhood.
The Baton Rouge Police Department said officers were called to the house on Riverway Drive shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday over a disturbance that stemmed from a confrontation between Melinda Reed, 66, and Denise Law, 37.
Reed suffered a severe head injury in the attack and was taken to a hospital. She later died from her injuries.
The woman accused of the attack was arrested and booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison for one count of first-degree murder.
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