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TV anchorwoman dies after brutal beating
Little Rock police still have no suspect in attack on Anne Pressly, 26
	
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  TV anchor attacked in her home
Oct. 21: Anne Pressly, a popular TV anchor in Arkansas, is in critical
condition after being found beaten in her home. Police spokeswoman
Cassandra Davis and Pressly�s friend Mallory Hardin discuss the crime.

updated 13 minutes ago

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - An Arkansas television anchorwoman died Saturday,
several days after being found beaten in her home when she didn't
answer her wake-up call, hospital officials said.

Anne Pressly, 26, died at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center,
hospital spokeswoman Margaret Preston said.

In a statement released by the hospital, Pressly's parents Guy and
Patti Cannady asked for privacy as they grieved their daughter's
death.

"It was our hope, as was yours, that Anne would overcome the injuries
inflicted upon her in the brutal attack at her home," the statement
read. "We were with her in her last moments, and although our hearts
are broken, we are at the same time comforted by our faith knowing
that Anne is now with our heavenly father."

Pressly was beaten around the head, face and neck. She had been unable
to communicate with her family or police while being kept sedated in
the intensive care unit.

She was discovered Monday morning a half-hour before she was to appear
on ABC affiliate KATV's "Daybreak" program. Her mother went to her
home after she didn't answer her regular wake-up call.

Little Rock police have yet to identify a suspect.

Pressly was a native of Greenville, S.C., and moved with her family to
Little Rock while she was in high school. She is a graduate of Rhodes
College in Memphis, Tenn.

Pressly had a small role in the new Oliver Stone movie "W.," which was
filmed in Shreveport, La. She appears briefly as a conservative
commentator who speaks favorably of President Bush's "Mission
Accomplished" event on an aircraft carrier shortly after the start of
the Iraq war.

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