Police Chief Steve McLean said Friday that Guzman’s autopsy was completed Friday: “There were no obvious signs of trauma whatsoever,” and the results of toxicology tests are pending.
Guzman, described by police as a transient, had at least one arrest for illegal narcotics but over the years she was involved in several violent - and in at least one case fatal - incidents.
In April 2002, Guzman was involved in an Ebell Park altercation and tussling with a man who was shot in the back by an unknown subject. Joseph McMullen was left with a bullet lodged near his spine but walked out of the hospital. About a week later the 29-year-old McMullen - considered the chief suspect in the earlier murder of a 16-year-old farmworker - was shot to death in the backyard of his mother’s 7th Street home. No one was ever charged in the crime.
On September 2010 in the early afternoon, Guzman left Isidro Alaniz, 28, in the parking lot of a Yale Street complex while she visited a friend’s apartment. Within minutes Alaniz, described by police as a pleasant, respectful person battling a deep-seated drug addiction, was shot multiple times and died at the scene. A suspect was never publicly identified in the shooting.
