Crime & Safety
Woman Who Admits to Killing Neighbor with Baseball Bat Charged with Murder
Brenda Martinez, 40, arrived at the police station to confessed to the murder, police sadi.
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By Bay City News Service
A woman who allegedly admitted to beating her neighbor to death with a baseball bat in San Mateo on Saturday has been charged with murder, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
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Brenda Martinez, 40, is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon on the murder count as well as an enhancement for use of a deadly weapon, Deputy District Attorney Karen Guidotti said.
Martinez arrived at the San Mateo Police Department at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday and said she had killed her neighbor, identified as 66-year-old Ellen Mackay.
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Officers responded to Mackay’s home in the first block of North Claremont Street and found her dead of head trauma inside with the baseball bat nearby.
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