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http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/12/28/investigation-continues-in-la-verne-double-homicide/
Deputies explained they were sent around 1:25 p.m. Friday to a home located in a gated community in the 300 block of Roughrider Road for report of an unresponsive couple.
Once on scene, deputies located two victims suffering, from what was initially reported as stab wounds, near the entrance of their home. The groundskeeper reportedly found the couple, officials said.
Authorities pronounced one of the victims, Shirley Isom, 74, dead at the scene. Her husband, Armie Isom, 89, was transported to a hospital in critical condition, where he later died. The coroners office reported on Saturday that the Isoms died as a result of blunt-force trauma.
http://readingeagle.com/ap/article/authorities-probe-fatal-attack-on-elderly-couple-in-la-area
The search for evidence was expected to extend into Saturday night, given the massive size of the property.
A no trespassing sign was posted on a tree and a Mitt Romney campaign banner hung across an entry gate to the long driveway leading up a hill to the 5,200-square-foot house. Trailers, vehicles and other equipment from the familys construction business were scattered around the lower half of the property. Above the house lies a vast hillside criss-crossed by dirt roads and dotted with patches of forest.
The attack occurred inside and outside the house, though its chronology remains unclear, Coleman said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/elderly-california-couple-killed-home-article-1.2058681
Police have said they do not have a suspect, but many neighbors told local media they say a transient man in the community and thought he seemed out of place.
Jose Tamayo, a gardener who was working nearby, told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune he saw the man exit the property minutes before the bodies were discovered. He was wearing a green jacket with a hood, a baseball cap and jeans. Tamayo said he picked up a backpack from the nearby bushes, put it on and walked away.
Neighbor Don Mineer told the newspaper he saw the man walking down the road. "He wasn't hurrying, but he wasn't wasting a lot of time," Mineer said.