Authorities said there is no evidence to indicate the deaths of 31-year-old Maleesa Mooney and 32-year-old Nichole Coats are related.
in her apartment located in the 200 block of South Figueroa Street. According to the LAPD, Mooney was murdered inside her apartment.
Two days prior on Sept. 10, the body of Coats was found inside her apartment in the 700 block of Grand Avenue. Officers had responded to Coats' home to perform a welfare check around 10 a.m., but no one responded. Around two hours later, someone called to report a dead body at the home. In a previous interview with FOX 11, Coats' aunt expressed doubt if the two cases were connected and said there was something very strange about Mooney's death, two days after Coats.
"Both girls were models… the similarities are there," said May Stevens-Clay. "They both lived in the same neighborhood."Police Department, Central Bureau Homicide Division, at
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