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BALTIMORE (WMAR) — An 83-year-old woman is dead after she was found unresponsive inside of her West Baltimore apartment, and police do not believe she died from natural causes.
On Wednesday, neighborhood friends of Dorothy Mae Neal grew concerned after not seeing her for days, so they called the police. The next day police went to her apartment in the 2300 block of Winchester Street to find Neal unresponsive.
Police say she was the victim of an apparent assault.
Her neighbor Percy Reese said she never let her age slow her down.
““I see her every once in a while you know taking the garbage. You know it’s a far walk from where she gotta go from the apartment to the dumpster. A lot of the times I’ll ask her if she needs help and what not and she’ll tell you I need the exercise ya know maybe tomorrow or something ya know.”
Neal was taken to the hospital where she died Thursday morning. Homicide detectives are now investigating this incident.
Sherree Smith lives around the corner, she’s shocked by the disregard for human life.
“Who raised you, you know you have to think before you act. That’s probably somebodies grandmother mother. You gotta think before you do things. It’s just ridiculous seriously.”
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