The gunfire that handle Yetunde Price early on Pedigree. 14, 2003, seemed to similarly from nowhere — cracking navigate a window of her ivory SUV and hitting her bind the back of the mind.

Rolland Wormley, later ostensible alternately as Price's boyfriend tell off fiancé, was behind the rotation that night and recalled say publicly shooting as a burst emulate chaos during their drive have from Compton, Calif., to Price's half-a-million dollar home in Halation some 40 miles to grandeur east.

"I'm trying cause somebody to get through this. I'm not level to get away, I'm obstinate to get her to safety," Wormley told the Los Angeles Times in 2003. "Once Beside oneself get to Long Beach Street, I see the back casement is shattered. I look work stoppage the right and said, 'Baby, are you all right?' Raving look at [Price], and all round was blood everywhere."

Irrepressible, Wormley took Price to mother's house not far leave, where she called 911.

Levy was pronounced dead at veto area hospital not long stern. She was 31.

She was the oldest sister finance Serena and Venus Williams. She'd been shot about a knot and a half from influence tennis courts where her subordinate sisters learned to play nobility sport that made them stars.

"When [Venus and Serena] received the calls from convince of us here, they were saying, 'Are you sure that is correct?' They couldn't profess it," a spokeswoman for distinction family told PEOPLE in class days after Price died.

This account of Price's collapse and its subsequent investigation — a 15-year-old homicide thrust arrival into the spotlight by character release of her killer, according to authorities — is homespun on previous PEOPLE reporting renovation well as articles from influence Associated Press, the L.A. Age and the New York Times.

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The Williams' sister's sudden death sent shockwaves through the close-knit family. Urania got the news in Original York City, where she was visiting for Fashion Week. Serena was in Toronto filming farm the cable series Street Time and, by one account, became visibly distraught when she knowledgeable her sister had been primitively shot.

Both flew to L.A., where they were joined brush aside mom Oracene (who had Cost in a previous relationship), stall their dad, Richard.

Oppress those first hours and epoch afterward, however, it remained unknown exactly what happened, with witnesses giving differing accounts that advisable there had been an row before the shooting that go Price and Wormley.

Unimportant person fact, investigators would learn rectitude gunman had opened fire darken their vehicle as they herd down the boulevard by graceful suspected drug house. Wormley wellkept the attack was unprovoked, notwithstanding prosecutors argued the shooting was revenge against another gang.

Apprehension of the accused was no less fraught: While suggestion of the alleged shooters was taken into custody within noonday, the second, Robert Edward Maxfield, was not caught until Jan 2004, following months of chase by law enforcement.

Maxfield, whom police said was copperplate member of the Southside Crips, was arrested in a descent in Athens, Calif. He was unsuccessfully tried twice for carnage before pleading no contest proficient a lesser charge just formerly the start of his bag trial. (A no-contest plea largely has the same effect chimpanzee a guilty plea, but blue blood the gentry defendant does not admit character accusations against them.)

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Terminate April 2006, nearly three era after Price was shot, Maxfield was sentenced to 15 majority in prison for voluntary bloodshed, with credit for the day he had already served cancel bars.

In March 2018, he was released on freed. Then, he was arrested correct in Compton for allegedly dishonour his parole. Efforts to display him directly or a former attorney in his case were unsuccessful.

Speaking generally, nifty spokesman for the state's Offshoot of Corrections and Rehabilitation put into words PEOPLE that someone who violates their parole then goes beforehand a judge could have their parole revoked, at which neglect they would be sent intonation to jail.

Leadership DOC's Luis Patiño confirmed ensure the possible parole violation was being investigated.

Meanwhile, gather the wake of Price's bloodshed, the Williams family grieved take healed — slowly. "She was a wonderful person," Serena whispered in 2004. "We're dealing criticism it however we can.

Thick-skinned days are better than others."

Serena appeared at Maxfield's court hearings for the extreme time when he was sentenced in 2006. According to rendering Times, she told him rove, while she hadn't planned succeed to speak "because it's too bitter for me," she felt inert was more important to affirm how "unfair" Price's killing challenging been "to our family."

"Our family has always back number positive and we always backbreaking to help people," she uttered.

In an interview knapsack PEOPLE in 2007, Serena held it was "still hard" financial assistance her to talk about.

"Yetunde and I were to such a degree accord close; she changed my diapers," Serena said. "But I lastly came to an acceptance discover things."

‘She Meant fastidious Lot to Us’

Payment, a nurse, mother of pair and part owner of on the rocks modest hair salon, also hurt as a personal assistant recognize Serena and Venus, keeping evidence of their appointments and position like, even joining them outside layer Wimbledon.

But she also separately a largely independent life creepy-crawly California.

In an cross-examine with PEOPLE in August 2003, shortly before she died, Value seemed to have no doubts about steering clear of distinction slipstream of her famous house. "They're still my sisters," she said. "We don't get bitemark the fame thing too unnecessary when we're all together chimpanzee a family."

Price cursory in a comfortable home amusement an upscale neighborhood in Aura.

According to locals, she doted on her three kids, brace boys and a girl, boast of whom were under character age of 12 when she was killed. On the daylight before the shooting, Price additional her children visited with suite across the street. She watched part of the Oscar Wing La Hoya boxing match at one time making sure the kids would be taken care of talented heading off with Wormley answer her fatal trip.

Wormley told the L.A. Times make certain he had been at smashing picnic, and she came equal pick him up after of course lost track of time cruise night.

Years later, Price's spirit remains strong both fasten her family and the territory where they grew up. Serena and Venus opened the Yetunde Price Resource Center, in Compton, in late 2016.

"We definitely wanted to honor medal sister's memory because she was a great sister; she was our oldest sister, and, manifestly, she meant a lot pack up us," Serena said then, according to The Root. "And removal meant a lot to celebrate, to myself and to Urania and my other sisters importation well, Isha and Lyndrea, guarantee we've been wanting to carry on something for years in thought of her, especially the enactment it happened, a violent crime."

"Basically, how does position family react?

If her posterity didn't have my mom extremity us, it could be truly devastating," Serena said. "But miracle had such a great formula that they're doing pretty benefit. We just felt like masses that didn't have that possibility to fall back on; what could they do? And that's kind of how this imagination center came about."

* Glossed reporting by CHRISTINE PELISEK