Police: Woman's Death After Lowell Fight Potential Homicide
LOWELL (CBS) -- State and local police are investigating a potential homicide after they say a woman was involved in a fight outside a party and died.
Police found a 44-year-old woman badly injured after she was apparently involved in a fight at about 11 p.m. on Saturday on Pawtucket Boulevard. The Middlesex District Attorney's office says Gloribel Orengo was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Luis Barreto said Orengo is his mother.
"First they said 'oh she got into a fight and a car ran her over," Barreto said. "Then I found out that a couple of neighbors were saying there was like eight girls jumping a lady and stomping her, so I was like yeah that was my mother that got killed."
Barreto said his mother was with her other son, who has Down Syndrome, at the time of the attack. Orengo was a mother of four and grandmother of three, relatives say.
"For them to sit there and take her life away over ... an attitude or something. Everybody knows these girls, they're a pack of wolves and it's disgusting," April Sawtelle, a friend of the victim, said.
From a preliminary investigation, police believe Orengo had been asked to leave a house party and then was involved in a fight with several people. They are investigating her death as an apparent homicide.
Another witness, who asked to remain anonymous, said the attack was brutal.
"There was arms, fists, everything was going and I just saw a woman loop around and hit the ground, and hearing another voice calling out his mother's name, that he loved her," the witness said.
No arrests have been made.
