Heneraetta Hammond, 74

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Heneraetta Hammond, 74, an older white woman, died from a single gunshot to the head at 23013 Nadine Circle in Torrance in what Torrance police said was a possible murder-suicide or double suicide in which Hammond’s husband also died. Her time of death was listed as 8:04 a.m. Thursday, June 28.

Police said officers went to the residence just before 8 a.m. on June 28 after a caretaker reported arriving home and finding the couple dead of gunshot wounds. A note and two guns were found at the scene. Both husband and wife were struggling with health problems, police said. Detectives have not yet concluded whether the pair may have committed suicide together, or whether he killed her, then himself. But the coroner--whose standard for defining homicide is different than that used by police--listed Heneraetta Hammond’s death as a homicide, thus warranting the inclusion of her name on this list.