Posted Monday, Feb. 22, 2010
BY ALEX BRANCH
abranch@star-telegram.com
FORT WORTH -- A 29-year-old man was arrested Monday on a murder warrant in the death of his girlfriend, who police say was assaulted in her apartment last month.
Anthony D. Turner was taken into custody by SWAT officers and U.S. Marshals at his job, said Sgt. Pedro Criado, a police spokesman.
Ashford "Monique" Sneed died from "arrhythmic sudden cardiac death during an assault by another person," the Tarrant County medical examiner's office ruled Feb. 10.
A spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office said the ruling essentially means that Sneed died from an irregular or altered heartbeat prompted by an assault.
Turner called police the afternoon of Jan. 7, reporting that he had found Sneed dead inside her apartment in the 500 block of King George Drive, police have said.
Sneed was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:27 p.m. Her body showed no obvious signs of trauma.
Investigators later connected Sneed to a phone call that had been placed to her daughter's school less than an hour earlier.
Police said employees at Lowery Road Elementary School called police shortly before 4 p.m. after receiving an "open-line" call, meaning that no one responded when the school employee answered.
All the employee heard was a male threatening and possibly assaulting a female, police said.
Sneed's daughter went to the school office a short time later, reporting that her mother had not picked her up after school.
ALEX BRANCH, 817-390-7689
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