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Woman Charged in California Mall Slaying Was Short on Funds for Daughter’s Cheer Competition, Prosecutor Says

Cherie Townsend is accused of murdering Susan Leeds after falling $2,000 short of funds to send her daughter and friends to a Florida cheerleading competition, prosecutors say.

Summary by The Mercury News
A woman accused of killing a retired nurse in the parking structure of the Promenade on the Peninsula mall in Rolling Hills Estates was struggling to find funds to send her and her daughter on a trip to Florida for her daughter’s team cheer competition, a prosecutor told a Torrance Superior Court jury during opening statements of the woman’s trial on Wednesday, Nov. 12. But a public defender representing Cherie Lynnette Townsend, 47, told the ju…

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The Press-Enterprise broke the news in on Wednesday, November 12, 2025.
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