"Kerri, who was found dead from a gunshot wound the night of Nov. 20, had returned to her hometown - a place her ancestors found and settled in the 1880s. Her divorce filings say she returned to Pinetop to help her ailing parents, but the hardscrabble town 7,000 feet high in Arizona's eastern White Mountains is also where she was once considered a rising star, where culture is steeped in tradition and religion, and where familial bonds are staked in blood ties."
"Kerri "always had a smile and a big wave" when she drove down the short, gravel-dirt road known as Bruin Way and passed by her neighbor Rebecca Lopez, a retired high school administrator. "She even asked her guests to keep their speed down so they wouldn't cover my cars and house with dust when they drove by. She was just a really nice lady.""
Kerri Ann Penrod grew up in Pinetop-Lakeside, married Mike Abatti in 1992, moved to California and raised three children in the Imperial Valley. She later left her husband of 31 years and returned to her hometown to help her ailing parents. She was found dead from a gunshot wound on the night of Nov. 20 in her Arizona mountain home. Local, state and federal law enforcement expanded their investigation from the couple's 14-acre Pinetop property to shared properties and businesses in Imperial County. Community members remember her as warm, considerate and beloved, rooted in a family lineage dating to the 1880s.
Read at Los Angeles Times
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]