{"id":87073,"date":"2019-04-16T16:19:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T23:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=87073"},"modified":"2020-02-13T13:27:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T21:27:38","slug":"19-year-old-charged-with-killing-her-mother-in-lancaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2019\/04\/16\/19-year-old-charged-with-killing-her-mother-in-lancaster\/","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old charged with killing her mother in Lancaster [updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"LANCASTER – A 19-year-old Lancaster woman was charged Tuesday with murdering her mother, who was found dead at their Lancaster home.<\/p>\n

Destiny Hammack<\/strong> was ordered to be held in lieu of $2 million bail while awaiting arraignment Wednesday, April 17, at the Lancaster courthouse.<\/p>\n

The incident was reported around 2 p.m. Sunday, April 14.<\/p>\n

Sheriff’s deputies were called to the 45300 block of Seventh Street East; and they found 62-year-old Diane Hammack<\/strong> dead on her bed. She had suffered blunt force trauma to her upper body, according to Deputy Tracy Koerner.<\/p>\n

Authorities believe the victim died that day or the day before. Her daughter, Destiny Hammack, was arrested about 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 14.<\/p>\n

If convicted as charged, she could face up to 25 years to life in state prison, according to the District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Arraignment for Destiny Hammack was postponed to May 1.<\/strong><\/p>\n

UPDATE: The murder charge against Destiny Hammack was dismissed on Oct. 18, 2019. View our updated story here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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LANCASTER – A 19-year-old Lancaster woman was charged Tuesday with murdering her mother, who was found dead at their Lancaster home. Destiny Hammack was ordered to be held in lieu of $2 million bail while awaiting arraignment Wednesday, April 17, at the Lancaster courthouse. The incident was reported around 2 p.m. Sunday, April 14. Sheriff’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719,1499,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}