Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Blunt Force Injuries Kill Woman at BART

Joy Grammatica, a 48-year-old woman from Livermore, has been identified as the dead person found Thursday at the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station.

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A has been identified as that of a 48-year-old Livermore woman, according to the Alameda County coroner's bureau.

Joy Ann Grammatica was found in the bushes by a BART police officer after someone called around 12:30 p.m. about a body in the area, BART police Lt. M. Hayes said.

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The coroner's bureau said Grammatica's cause of death was multiple blunt force injuries.

BART police are investigating the case as an "unattended death," which Hayes said means, "We don't know what happened."

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A LinkedIn profile page lists Joy Grammatica as an implementation manager at Verizon in the San Francisco Bay Area and shows she had been with the company since 2006.

Her Twitter page description says she is from Livermore and a mother. She last posted a tweet in April.


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