{"id":349783,"date":"2026-06-06T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/349783\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T18:52:09","slug":"california-sisters-arrested-after-mother-found-dead-in-pullout-couch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/349783\/","title":{"rendered":"California sisters arrested after mother found dead in pullout couch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two California sisters are in custody on suspicion of murder after their mother was found dead in a pullout couch, San Diego police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before midnight on March 6, San Diego dispatchers received a 911 call from a home on the 6300 block of Genesee Avenue in University City. The caller said Kun-Ying Yang, 81, had been discovered unresponsive by family members in the apartment. When police and firefighters arrived at the scene, they found Yang\u00a0\u201cpositioned awkwardly on a bed,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-03\/20260312-decedent-identified-in-suspicious-death-university-city.pdf\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">San Diego police described it<\/a> in a March 12 news release. Despite first responders attempting life-saving measures, Yang was pronounced deceased at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators quickly deemed the situation suspicious, police said, and opened a homicide probe. Lt. Christopher Leahy of the San Diego Police Department\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/06\/04\/two-sisters-arrested-in-connection-with-81-year-old-mothers-death-in-university-city\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">told the San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a> June 4 that detectives believed Yang had been, in fact,\u00a0face-down in the space between the bed frame and couch for at least 15 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe clearly should not have been in that position, and efforts were not made to remove her or get her appropriate medical care,\u201d Leahy told the Union-Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy found Yang died of positional asphyxia, or suffocation, with neglect as a contributing factor in her death, Leahy said. In addition, police said that during interviews, they learned of allegations of neglect and poor elder care in the home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Yang\u2019s daughters, Rebecca Wu, 53, and Ingrid Wu, 52, were arrested on suspicion of murder. Jail records show they were both charged with first-degree murder and felony elder abuse. Leahy indicated to the Union-Tribune that the elder abuse charge was in relation to the alleged neglect of their 88-year-old father.<\/p>\n<p>Jail records show the Wu sisters are being held without bail. They are due in court on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two California sisters are in custody on suspicion of murder after their mother was found dead in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,1692],"class_list":["post-349783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-sfgnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}