A South Los Angeles woman was found bound, gagged with duct tape and beaten to death inside her home over the weekend.
Woman found beaten to death, bound, gagged and wrapped in a blanket inside her home
Cops said Fatima Johnson’s body had been found rolled up in a blanket inside her home.
Family members that Johnson had been missing for a few days, so they went looking for her.
“We hadn’t heard from my mother in the last 48 hours,” said Johnson’s daughter, Tyesa Harvey. “My sisters and I contacted her best friend and got her key, and my sisters found my mother inside her house dead.”
Family members located Johnson unconscious and not breathing around 11:30 p.m.
Saturday night and called police.
Arriving paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene around 12:05 a.m. Sunday, the Los Angeles Police Department reported .
“My mother was bound with her mouth gagged, wrapped in a blanket as if the person we suspect murdered her was trying to wrap her body so they could dispose of it,” Harvey said.
Investigators have not yet named possible suspects in the murder. A prayer vigil and press conference for Johnson will be held at 6 p.m. Monday.
South Los Angeles woman found bound, gagged with duct tape and beaten to death inside her home.
Investigators have not yet named possible suspects in the murder.
Cops said Fatima Johnson’s body had been found rolled up in a blanket inside her home. Family members said Johnson had been missing for a few days, so they went looking for her.
