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Authorities are looking for the man who lives at the house on Vaughn Road where the victim was located, a spokesman said.
Lt. Cody Burk of the Pulaski County sheriff's office said in an email that Parnell May, 41, is a person of interest in the beating death of the unnamed woman.
Anyone with information on May's location can call the sheriff's office at (501) 340-6600.
The victim hasn't been identified yet, Burk said.
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A woman found beaten in a Pulaski County front yard Sunday morning was pronounced dead after she was taken to a hospital, a sheriff’s office spokesman said.
Lt. Cody Burk of the Pulaski County sheriff’s office said deputies were called to a duplex in the 4900 block of Vaughn Road around 7:30 a.m. They found the woman lying in the front yard. She had been beaten, Burk said.
Emergency responders arrived at the house and took her her to the hospital, where medical personnel determined she had died.
Burk said investigators are working to identify the woman and gathering evidence at the scene. The sheriff’s office is investigating the death as a homicide and there have been no arrests, he added.
“We’re still developing everything we’ve got out here,” Burk said Sunday morning.
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