American TV anchorwoman Anne Pressly dies days after being found brutally beaten in her home
A U.S. breakfast television newswoman who had a small role in a film about President Bush has died several days after she was found beaten in her home.Anne Pressly, 26, died yesterday at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Centre in Little Rock, Arkansas, hospital spokeswoman Margaret Preston said.
Miss 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.
Miss Pressly was discovered on Monday morning half an hour before she was to appear on KATV's Daybreak programme.
Her mother went to her home after she didn't answer her regular wake-up call.
Police have yet to identify a suspect, though detectives have combed the area around the newswoman's home.
News reports have said detectives found evidence that Miss Pressly's credit card was used on Monday at a petrol station a few miles from her home.
Last week, police say there was no sign of forced entry, but that her purse was missing from the house, so the motive for the attack may have been robbery.
But local police refused to rule out the possibility that it was a targeted attack.
After she was discovered, a local police chief said: 'Our detectives are talking with co-workers because she was a public figure, because she was on the news, in the media.'
Sergeant Cassandra Davis, a police spokeswoman, did not return a call for comment yesterday.
Miss Pressly had a small role in the new Oliver Stone movie, W.
She appears briefly as a conservative commentator who speaks favourably of President George W. Bush's Mission Accomplished event on an aircraft carrier shortly after the start of the Iraq war.
Miss Pressly's most notable interview during her career was with Vice President Dick Cheney.
KATV president and general manager Dale Nicholson issued a statement shortly after the attack, describing the anchor as 'a person who simply lights up the room, by just walking in'.
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