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Police are investigating the death of a 29-year-old Anniston woman who passed away Tuesday in a Birmingham hospital.
Shaquita Rena Murray, 29, succumbed to a head injury after spending a week at Trinity Medical Medical Center in Birmingham, Calhoun County Coroner Pat Brown said.
Anniston police said Murray was injured on the morning of Dec. 21. Sgt. Josh Doggrell said police are investigating Murray’s death.
“I think it’s going to end up being a homicide,” Doggrell said.
The sergeant said investigators first learned of Murray’s head wound several hours after she received it, when they received a felony assault call from an unidentified person at a home on Walnut Avenue.
Investigators aren’t releasing the identity of the caller, because the person who made the call “is possibly involved,” Doggrell said.
Police arrived at a residence in the 2500 block of Walnut Avenue on the night of Dec. 21, but, at that point, Murray had already been taken to the hospital.
Doggrell said Murray was first taken to Regional Medical Center and transferred that same day to Trinity in Birmingham. Officers interviewed people at the Walnut Avenue home and have spent the past week interviewing several others.
“We’re trying to determine witnesses from suspects,” Doggrell said, noting that he’d classify most of the people that police had talked to as “persons of interest.”
Investigators expect to know more about whether Murray’s death was indeed a homicide after state medical examiners perform an autopsy.
Brown said Murray’s body was being transported to a state forensics lab in Huntsville today.
If investigators determine that Murray is a homicide victim, the violent death county in Calhoun County this year would rise to 19, just one shy of the record 20 criminal deaths in 2008.
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