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Yetunde Hawanya Tara Price (August 9, 1972 – September 14, 2003) [1] was the oldest half-sister of and personal assistant to the leading tennis players Venus and Serena Williams. On September 14, 2003, she was murdered in a drive-by shooting in Compton, California, United States by Robert Maxfield.
In 2016, Serena Williams and Venus Williams honored their late sister by founding the Yetunde Price Resource Center, a non-profit that collaborates with other organizations to offer healing ...
Serena Williams had the most painful loss of her life on her mind when she suffered the worst loss of her career on July 31. Williams told Time that she learned the man who killed her sister ...
The song is dedicated to Yetunde Price (the elder half-sister of tennis stars Serena Williams and Venus Williams), who was shot dead on September 14, 2003; the Williams' also came from the Game's hometown of Compton, California. The lyrics cite the Dr. Dre album 2001 being released "in 2001", when it was actually released in 1999.
Lyndrea Price, 45, was also an essential part of Serena and Venus’s rise to fame, helping the sister train with their father Richard. She would gather and run tennis balls for the sisters.
In 2003, Yetunde Price, Venus and Serena Williams's 31-year-old sister and their personal assistant, was shot dead in Compton, California near the courts on which the sisters once practiced. [ 96 ] In 2007, Williams received her associate degree in fashion design from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale .
In a recent interview, Venus, 44, joked that her career and legacy got lumped together with sister Serena Williams when she stepped away from the sport in 2022. “As that moment gets closer ...
On September 14, 2003, two members of the South Side Compton Crips opened fire on an SUV containing Yetunde Price and her boyfriend, fatally wounding Price. Price was the oldest half-sister of and personal assistant to the leading tennis players Venus and Serena Williams. The two gang members believed they were protecting a drug house from a ...