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Riverhead police honor dispatcher for saving girl from gunman who killed mom and sister last February
Riverhead Police honored one of the department's public safety dispatchers for her actions to keep a 14-year-old 911 caller safe from a gunman who shot and killed her mother and sister inside the family's Wading River home last February.
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Mother-daughter slayings in Wading River are an example of the growing incidence of ‘intimate partner homicide’
Like Tanya Lawrence and her daughter, a staggering 33 percent of female murder victims are killed by an intimate partner. Suffolk County is implementing a new program to help educate domestic violence victims about the resources available to them.
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‘No act of violence will claim victory’: mother-daughter shooting victims laid to rest after emotional funeral service
Hundreds of people turned out today to pay their respects today to mother and daughter shooting victims Tanya and Danielle Lawrence, who died last Sunday night in their Wading River home, in this community’s most horrific incident of domestic violence in memory.
Obituaries
Tanya Jeneke Lawrence, 43
Tanya Jeneke Lawrence of Wading River died February 15, 2015 at age 43.
